The docs mention spark-ec2 because it is part of the Spark project. There
are many, many alternatives to spark-ec2 out there like EMR, but it's
probably not the place of the official docs to promote any one of those
third-party solutions.

On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 11:05 AM James Hammerton <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Having looked at how easy it is to use EMR, I reckon you may be right,
> especially if using Java 8 is no more difficult with that than with
> spark-ec2 (where I had to install it on the master and slaves and edit the
> spark-env.sh).
>
> I'm now curious as to why the Spark documentation (
> http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/index.html) mentions EC2 but not EMR.
>
> Regards,
>
> James
>
>
> On 19 February 2016 at 14:25, Daniel Siegmann <[email protected]
> > wrote:
>
>> With EMR supporting Spark, I don't see much reason to use the spark-ec2
>> script unless it is important for you to be able to launch clusters using
>> the bleeding edge version of Spark. EMR does seem to do a pretty decent job
>> of keeping up to date - the latest version (4.3.0) supports the latest
>> Spark version (1.6.0).
>>
>> So I'd flip the question around and ask: is there any reason to continue
>> using the spark-ec2 script rather than EMR?
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 11:39 AM, James Hammerton <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I have now... So far  I think the issues I've had are not related to
>>> this, but I wanted to be sure in case it should be something that needs to
>>> be patched. I've had some jobs run successfully but this warning appears in
>>> the logs.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> James
>>>
>>> On 18 February 2016 at 12:23, Ted Yu <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Have you seen this ?
>>>>
>>>> HADOOP-10988
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 3:39 AM, James Hammerton <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> HI,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am seeing warnings like this in the logs when I run Spark jobs:
>>>>>
>>>>> OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM warning: You have loaded library 
>>>>> /root/ephemeral-hdfs/lib/native/libhadoop.so.1.0.0 which might have 
>>>>> disabled stack guard. The VM will try to fix the stack guard now.
>>>>> It's highly recommended that you fix the library with 'execstack -c 
>>>>> <libfile>', or link it with '-z noexecstack'.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I used spark-ec2 to launch the cluster with the default AMI, Spark
>>>>> 1.5.2, hadoop major version 2.4. I altered the jdk to be openjdk 8 as I'd
>>>>> written some jobs in Java 8. The 6 workers nodes are m4.2xlarge and master
>>>>> is m4.large.
>>>>>
>>>>> Could this contribute to any problems running the jobs?
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> James
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>

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