Github user kayousterhout commented on a diff in the pull request:

    https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/900#discussion_r14205252
  
    --- Diff: 
yarn/stable/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/yarn/ApplicationMaster.scala 
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    @@ -164,6 +164,7 @@ class ApplicationMaster(args: 
ApplicationMasterArguments, conf: Configuration,
     
       private def startUserClass(): Thread = {
         logInfo("Starting the user JAR in a separate Thread")
    +    System.setProperty("spark.executor.instances", 
args.numExecutors.toString)
    --- End diff --
    
    Why do you need to set this here?  Is this for the case when 
args.numExecutors was set by SPARK_EXECUTOR_INSTANCES (since otherwise it seems 
like spark.executor.instances will already be set, right)?


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