Dear Sparkers: I am using Python spark of version 0.9.0 to implement some iterative algorithm. I got some errors shown at the end of this email. It seems that it's due to the Java Stack Overflow error. The same error has been duplicated on a mac desktop and a linux workstation, both running the same version of Spark.
The same line of code works correctly after quite some iterations. At the line of error, rdd__new.count() could be 0. (In some previous rounds, this was also 0 without any problem). Any thoughts on this? Thank you very much, - Guanhua ======================================== CODE: print "round", round, rdd__new.count() ======================================== File "/home1/ghyan/Software/spark-0.9.0-incubating-bin-hadoop2/python/pyspark/rdd .py", line 542, in count 14/05/12 16:20:28 INFO TaskSetManager: Loss was due to java.lang.StackOverflowError [duplicate 1] return self.mapPartitions(lambda i: [sum(1 for _ in i)]).sum() 14/05/12 16:20:28 ERROR TaskSetManager: Task 8419.0:0 failed 1 times; aborting job File "/home1/ghyan/Software/spark-0.9.0-incubating-bin-hadoop2/python/pyspark/rdd .py", line 533, in sum 14/05/12 16:20:28 INFO TaskSchedulerImpl: Ignoring update with state FAILED from TID 1774 because its task set is gone return self.mapPartitions(lambda x: [sum(x)]).reduce(operator.add) File "/home1/ghyan/Software/spark-0.9.0-incubating-bin-hadoop2/python/pyspark/rdd .py", line 499, in reduce vals = self.mapPartitions(func).collect() File "/home1/ghyan/Software/spark-0.9.0-incubating-bin-hadoop2/python/pyspark/rdd .py", line 463, in collect bytesInJava = self._jrdd.collect().iterator() File "/home1/ghyan/Software/spark-0.9.0-incubating-bin-hadoop2/python/lib/py4j-0. 8.1-src.zip/py4j/java_gateway.py", line 537, in __call__ File "/home1/ghyan/Software/spark-0.9.0-incubating-bin-hadoop2/python/lib/py4j-0. 8.1-src.zip/py4j/protocol.py", line 300, in get_return_value py4j.protocol.Py4JJavaError: An error occurred while calling o4317.collect. : org.apache.spark.SparkException: Job aborted: Task 8419.0:1 failed 1 times (most recent failure: Exception failure: java.lang.StackOverflowError) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler$$anonfun$org$apache$spark$scheduler$ DAGScheduler$$abortStage$1.apply(DAGScheduler.scala:1028) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler$$anonfun$org$apache$spark$scheduler$ DAGScheduler$$abortStage$1.apply(DAGScheduler.scala:1026) at scala.collection.mutable.ResizableArray$class.foreach(ResizableArray.scala:5 9) at scala.collection.mutable.ArrayBuffer.foreach(ArrayBuffer.scala:47) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler.org$apache$spark$scheduler$DAGSchedu ler$$abortStage(DAGScheduler.scala:1026) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler$$anonfun$processEvent$10.apply(DAGSc heduler.scala:619) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler$$anonfun$processEvent$10.apply(DAGSc heduler.scala:619) at scala.Option.foreach(Option.scala:236) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler.processEvent(DAGScheduler.scala:619) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler$$anonfun$start$1$$anon$2$$anonfun$re ceive$1.applyOrElse(DAGScheduler.scala:207) at akka.actor.ActorCell.receiveMessage(ActorCell.scala:498) at akka.actor.ActorCell.invoke(ActorCell.scala:456) at akka.dispatch.Mailbox.processMailbox(Mailbox.scala:237) at akka.dispatch.Mailbox.run(Mailbox.scala:219) at akka.dispatch.ForkJoinExecutorConfigurator$AkkaForkJoinTask.exec(AbstractDis patcher.scala:386) at scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinTask.doExec(ForkJoinTask.java:260) at scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinPool$WorkQueue.runTask(ForkJoinPool.java:1 339) at scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinPool.runWorker(ForkJoinPool.java:1979) at scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinWorkerThread.run(ForkJoinWorkerThread.java :107) ====================================== The stack overflow error is shown as follows: ====================================== 14/05/12 16:20:28 ERROR Executor: Exception in task ID 1774 java.lang.StackOverflowError at java.util.zip.Inflater.inflate(Inflater.java:259) at java.util.zip.InflaterInputStream.read(InflaterInputStream.java:152) at java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream.read(GZIPInputStream.java:116) at java.io.ObjectInputStream$PeekInputStream.read(ObjectInputStream.java:2310) at java.io.ObjectInputStream$PeekInputStream.readFully(ObjectInputStream.java:2 323) at java.io.ObjectInputStream$BlockDataInputStream.readInt(ObjectInputStream.jav a:2818) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readHandle(ObjectInputStream.java:1452) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readClassDesc(ObjectInputStream.java:1511) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1771) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1350) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:1990) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1915) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1798) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1350) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readArray(ObjectInputStream.java:1706) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1344) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:1990) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1915) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1798) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1350) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:1990) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1915) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1798) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1350) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:1990) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1915) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1798) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1350) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:370) at scala.collection.immutable.$colon$colon.readObject(List.scala:362) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor6.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl .java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606) at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.invokeReadObject(ObjectStreamClass.java:1017) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1893) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1798) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1350) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:1990) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1915) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1798) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1350) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:1990) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1915) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1798) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1350) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:370) at scala.collection.immutable.$colon$colon.readObject(List.scala:362) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor6.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl .java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606) at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.invokeReadObject(ObjectStreamClass.java:1017) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1893) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1798) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1350) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:1990) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1915) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1798) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1350) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:1990) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1915) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1798) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1350) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:370) at scala.collection.immutable.$colon$colon.readObject(List.scala:362) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor6.invoke(Unknown Source) The above replicated many times after this ======================================