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Hyukjin Kwon commented on SPARK-26679:
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What does the current {{spark.memory.fraction}} exactly controls? In case of 
PySpark, that might be different since all the memory itself is for execution 
not for caching, storage, extra calculation or anything. It might ser/de some 
big instance but that's also counted as a part of execution.

> Deconflict spark.executor.pyspark.memory and spark.python.worker.memory
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>                 Key: SPARK-26679
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-26679
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: PySpark
>    Affects Versions: 2.4.0
>            Reporter: Ryan Blue
>            Priority: Major
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> In 2.4.0, spark.executor.pyspark.memory was added to limit the total memory 
> space of a python worker. There is another RDD setting, 
> spark.python.worker.memory that controls when Spark decides to spill data to 
> disk. These are currently similar, but not related to one another.
> PySpark should probably use spark.executor.pyspark.memory to limit or default 
> the setting of spark.python.worker.memory because the latter property 
> controls spilling and should be lower than the total memory limit. Renaming 
> spark.python.worker.memory would also help clarity because it sounds like it 
> should control the limit, but is more like the JVM setting 
> spark.memory.fraction.



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