Github user mridulm commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/634#issuecomment-42172774
Btw I dont recall exactly why the actual value of 3 seconds is there; I
think earlier spark used to crash in case there are no containers available
when job is going to be launched - thankfully that is not the case anymore !
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