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Sean Owen commented on SPARK-5997:
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Coalescing to 1 partition doesn't avoid the problem, since (unless you started
with 1 executor) most partitions are remote anyway and have to be collected to
1 machine. This isn't a good thing.
> Increase partition count without performing a shuffle
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> Key: SPARK-5997
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-5997
> Project: Spark
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Spark Core
> Reporter: Andrew Ash
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> When decreasing partition count with rdd.repartition() or rdd.coalesce(), the
> user has the ability to choose whether or not to perform a shuffle. However
> when increasing partition count there is no option of whether to perform a
> shuffle or not -- a shuffle always occurs.
> This Jira is to create a {{rdd.repartition(largeNum, shuffle=false)}} call
> that performs a repartition to a higher partition count without a shuffle.
> The motivating use case is to decrease the size of an individual partition
> enough that the .toLocalIterator has significantly reduced memory pressure on
> the driver, as it loads a partition at a time into the driver.
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