EMR does cost more than vanilla EC2. Using spark-ec2 can result in savings
with large clusters, though that is not everybody's cup of tea.

Regards
Sab
On 19-Feb-2016 7:55 pm, "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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