Sometimes workers are dead but spark context does not know it and still send jobs.
On Tuesday, August 12, 2014 7:14 PM, Stanley Shi <s...@pivotal.io> wrote: Why do you need to detect the worker status in the application? you application generally don't need to know where it is executed. On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 7:39 AM, S. Zhou <myx...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote: I tried to access worker info from spark context but it seems spark context does no expose such API. The reason of doing that is: it seems spark context itself does not have logic to detect if its workers are in dead status. So I like to add such logic by myself. > > >BTW, it seems spark web UI has some logic of detecting dead workers. But all >relevant classes are declared as private for the spark package scope. > > >Please let me know how to solve this issue (or if there is an alternative way >to achieve the same purpose) > > >Thanks > > -- Regards, Stanley Shi,