PERFORMANCE: Use lightweight bag implementations which do not register with SpillableMemoryManager with Combiner ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: PIG-636 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-636 Project: Pig Issue Type: Improvement Affects Versions: types_branch Reporter: Pradeep Kamath Assignee: Pradeep Kamath Fix For: types_branch Currently whenever Combiner is used in pig, in the map, the POPrecombinerLocalRearrange operator puts the single "value" tuple corresponding to a key into a DataBag and passes this to the foreach which is being combined. This will generate as many bags as there are input records. These bags all will have a single tuple and hence are small and should not need to be spilt to disk. However since the bags are created through the BagFactory mechanism, each bag creation is registered with the SpillableMemoryManager and a weak reference to the bag is stored in a linked list. This linked list grows really big over time causing unnecessary Garbage collection runs. This can be avoided by having a simple lightweight implementation of the DataBag interface to store the single tuple in a bag. Also these SingleTupleBags should be created without registering with the spillableMemoryManager. Likewise the bags created in POCombinePackage are supposed to fit in Memory and not spill. Again a NonSpillableDataBag implementation of DataBag interface which does not register with the SpillableMemoryManager would help. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.