Github user pwendell commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1132#issuecomment-46731918
I also like this fix more. I'd like to put this in master/1.1.0. For 1.0.1
though I think we can have a fix that changes the behavior less than this (akka
is a black box and any time we change around the way actor systems are
initialized, there is a risk of hitting something weird).
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