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Thomas Graves updated SPARK-23964:
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    Description: 
The spillable class has a check in maybeSpill as to when it tries to acquire 
more memory and determine if it should spill:

if (elementsRead % 32 == 0 && currentMemory >= myMemoryThreshold) {

Before it looks to see if it should spill.  

[https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/util/collection/Spillable.scala#L83]

I'm wondering why it has the elementsRead %32  in it?  If I have a small number 
of elements that are huge this can easily cause OOM before we actually spill.  

I saw a few conversations on this and one Jira related: 
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-4456 . but I've never seen an 
answer to this.

anyone have history on this?

  was:
The spillable class has a check:

if (elementsRead % 32 == 0 && currentMemory >= myMemoryThreshold) {

Before it looks to see if it should spill.  

[https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/util/collection/Spillable.scala#L83]

I'm wondering why it has the elementsRead %32  in it?  If I have a small number 
of elements that are huge this can easily cause OOM before we actually spill.  

I saw a few conversations on this and one Jira related: 
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-4456 . but I've never seen an 
answer to this.

anyone have history on this?


> why does Spillable wait for 32 elements?
> ----------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SPARK-23964
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-23964
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Spark Core
>    Affects Versions: 2.2.1
>            Reporter: Thomas Graves
>            Priority: Major
>
> The spillable class has a check in maybeSpill as to when it tries to acquire 
> more memory and determine if it should spill:
> if (elementsRead % 32 == 0 && currentMemory >= myMemoryThreshold) {
> Before it looks to see if it should spill.  
> [https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/util/collection/Spillable.scala#L83]
> I'm wondering why it has the elementsRead %32  in it?  If I have a small 
> number of elements that are huge this can easily cause OOM before we actually 
> spill.  
> I saw a few conversations on this and one Jira related: 
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-4456 . but I've never seen an 
> answer to this.
> anyone have history on this?



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