Github user mridulm commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/634#issuecomment-42143958
Better would be to make this configurable (and increase it - not remove).
Currently, we actually sleep for much longer in our jobs to ensure a
minimum number of containers are available.
The sleep was not arbitrarily thrown in there :-)
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