Hi Reynold Spark 1.6.x has serious bug related to shuffle functionality https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-14560 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-4452
Shuffle throws OOM on serious load. I've seen this error several times on my heavy jobs java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Unable to acquire 75 bytes of memory, got 0 at org.apache.spark.memory.MemoryConsumer.allocatePage(MemoryConsumer.java:120) at org.apache.spark.shuffle.sort.ShuffleExternalSorter.acquireNewPageIfNecessary(ShuffleExternalSorter.java:346) It was fixed in both spark-2.0.0 and spark-1.6.x BUT spark-1.6 fix was NOT merged - https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/13027 Is it possible to include the fix to spark-1.6.3? Thank you Alex On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 1:39 PM, Reynold Xin <r...@databricks.com> wrote: > It's been a while and we have fixed a few bugs in branch-1.6. I plan to > cut rc1 for 1.6.3 next week (just in time for Spark Summit Europe). Let me > know if there are specific issues that should be addressed before that. > Thanks. >