Re: sparkContext.textFile does not honour the minPartitions argument

2015-01-02 Thread Aniket Bhatnagar
Thanks everyone. I studied the source code and realized minPartitions is passed over to Hadoop's InputFormat and its upto the InputFormat implementation to use the parameter as a hint. Thanks, Aniket On Fri, Jan 2, 2015, 7:13 AM Rishi Yadav ri...@infoobjects.com wrote: Hi Ankit, Optional

sparkContext.textFile does not honour the minPartitions argument

2015-01-01 Thread Aniket Bhatnagar
I am trying to read a file into a single partition but it seems like sparkContext.textFile ignores the passed minPartitions value. I know I can repartition the RDD but I was curious to know if this is expected or if this is a bug that needs to be further investigated?

Re: sparkContext.textFile does not honour the minPartitions argument

2015-01-01 Thread Rishi Yadav
Hi Ankit, Optional number of partitions value is to increase number of partitions not reduce it from default value. On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Aniket Bhatnagar aniket.bhatna...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to read a file into a single partition but it seems like sparkContext.textFile