Re: Job priority

2015-01-11 Thread Alessandro Baretta
Ok, will do. Thanks for providing some context on this topic. Alex On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 8:34 PM, Patrick Wendell wrote: > Priority scheduling isn't something we've supported in Spark and we've > opted to support FIFO and Fair scheduling and asked users to try and > fit these to the needs of

Re: Job priority

2015-01-11 Thread Patrick Wendell
Priority scheduling isn't something we've supported in Spark and we've opted to support FIFO and Fair scheduling and asked users to try and fit these to the needs of their applications. In practice from what I've seen of priority schedulers, such as the linux CPU scheduler, is that strict priority

Re: Job priority

2015-01-11 Thread Mark Hamstra
Yes, if you are asking about developing a new priority queue job scheduling feature and not just about how job scheduling currently works in Spark, the that's a dev list issue. The current job scheduling priority is at the granularity of pools containing jobs, not the jobs themselves; so if you re

Re: Job priority

2015-01-11 Thread Alessandro Baretta
Cody, While I might be able to improve the scheduling of my jobs by using a few different pools with weights equal to, say, 1, 1e3 and 1e6, effectively getting a small handful of priority classes. Still, this is really not quite what I am describing. This is why my original post was on the dev lis

Job priority

2015-01-10 Thread Alessandro Baretta
Is it possible to specify a priority level for a job, such that the active jobs might be scheduled in order of priority? Alex