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Jason Dunkelberger commented on SPARK-18838:
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I cut a PR here which just makes this queue blocking if full and logs a warning 
if a put is "too slow". So messages never get dropped anymore. Made our spark 
jobs much more stable (so far). I am not sure why it's a bad idea, so am 
looking for that kind of feedback. Or maybe, it is the way to go forward, at 
least for stability until something more performant/more-complicated is added.

https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/18850

> High latency of event processing for large jobs
> -----------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SPARK-18838
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-18838
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.0
>            Reporter: Sital Kedia
>         Attachments: perfResults.pdf, SparkListernerComputeTime.xlsx
>
>
> Currently we are observing the issue of very high event processing delay in 
> driver's `ListenerBus` for large jobs with many tasks. Many critical 
> component of the scheduler like `ExecutorAllocationManager`, 
> `HeartbeatReceiver` depend on the `ListenerBus` events and this delay might 
> hurt the job performance significantly or even fail the job.  For example, a 
> significant delay in receiving the `SparkListenerTaskStart` might cause 
> `ExecutorAllocationManager` manager to mistakenly remove an executor which is 
> not idle.  
> The problem is that the event processor in `ListenerBus` is a single thread 
> which loops through all the Listeners for each event and processes each event 
> synchronously 
> https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/scheduler/LiveListenerBus.scala#L94.
>  This single threaded processor often becomes the bottleneck for large jobs.  
> Also, if one of the Listener is very slow, all the listeners will pay the 
> price of delay incurred by the slow listener. In addition to that a slow 
> listener can cause events to be dropped from the event queue which might be 
> fatal to the job.
> To solve the above problems, we propose to get rid of the event queue and the 
> single threaded event processor. Instead each listener will have its own 
> dedicate single threaded executor service . When ever an event is posted, it 
> will be submitted to executor service of all the listeners. The Single 
> threaded executor service will guarantee in order processing of the events 
> per listener.  The queue used for the executor service will be bounded to 
> guarantee we do not grow the memory indefinitely. The downside of this 
> approach is separate event queue per listener will increase the driver memory 
> footprint. 



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