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Marcelo Vanzin commented on SPARK-18838:
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bq. although that is guaranteed to happen when the wrong events are dropped
I think there are, mainly, two different things that go on when the listener
bus gets backed up:
- events dropped mess up the UI
- events dropped mess up dynamic allocation
The UI being messed up doesn't mean the application is not making progress. The
scheduler does not use the event bus nor UI information to decide what to do
next.
Dynamic allocation getting messed up is a real problem; currently the best
course is probably to disable it, or to play with settings to increase the
queue size and disable other expensive listeners.
A blocking strategy is not out of the picture, but it needs to be properly
studied to understand its effects. At the very least, it will cause memory
usage to increase and will slow down the scheduler, even if it does not cause
actual errors. It's kinda sub-optimal to slow down the whole Spark app because
some listener in the driver is doing I/O.
> High latency of event processing for large jobs
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>
> 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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