On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 8:55 AM, jamborta <jambo...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am running spark with the default settings in yarn client mode. For some > reason yarn always allocates three containers to the application (wondering > where it is set?), and only uses two of them.
The default number of executors in Yarn mode is 2; so you have 2 executors + the application master, so 3 containers. > Also the cpus on the cluster never go over 50%, I turned off the fair > scheduler and set high spark.cores.max. Is there some additional settings I > am missing? You probably need to request more cores (--executor-cores). Don't remember if that is respected in Yarn, but should be. -- Marcelo --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@spark.apache.org