Github user aarondav commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1485#issuecomment-49494194
The tasks launched on an Executor are controlled by the DAGScheduler, and
should not exceed the number of cores that executor is advertising. In what
situation have you seen this happening?
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