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Imran Rashid commented on SPARK-24938:
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yeah thats about what I expected.  Its worse than 16MB per "service" in some 
cases, though -- it'll be 16 MB per netty thread, which will max out at 8.  
You'll see that a lot on the driver.  So could save 384 MB on the driver, and I 
think 128 MB in the external shuffle service (where only one service is active, 
I think).

Did you see a corresponding increase in the offheap pools?  I expected them to 
*not* grow (as spark actually only needs a tiny bit of space from these pools, 
so it should be able to find that space in the existing offheap pools).

> Understand usage of netty's onheap memory use, even with offheap pools
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>                 Key: SPARK-24938
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-24938
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Spark Core
>    Affects Versions: 2.4.0
>            Reporter: Imran Rashid
>            Priority: Major
>              Labels: memory-analysis
>
> We've observed that netty uses large amount of onheap memory in its pools, in 
> addition to the expected offheap memory when I added some instrumentation 
> (using SPARK-24918 and https://github.com/squito/spark-memory). We should 
> figure out why its using that memory, and whether its really necessary.
> It might be just this one line:
> https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/common/network-common/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/network/protocol/MessageEncoder.java#L82
> which means that even with a small burst of messages, each arena will grow by 
> 16MB which could lead to a 128 MB spike of an almost entirely unused pool.  
> Switching to requesting a buffer from the default pool would probably fix 
> this.



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