sc.textFile uses a hadoop input format. hadoop input formats by default
create one task per file, and they are not very suitable for many very
small files. can you turns your 1000 files into one larger text file?
otherwise maybe try:
val data = sc.textFile("/user/foo/myfiles/*").coalesce(100)
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 7:51 AM, bethesda <swearinge...@mac.com> wrote:
>
> Our job is creating what appears to be an inordinate number of very small
> tasks, which blow out our os inode and file limits. Rather than
> continually
> upping those limits, we are seeking to understand whether our real problem
> is that too many tasks are running, perhaps because we are mis-configured
> or
> we are coding incorrectly.
>
> Rather than posting our actual code I have re-created the essence of the
> matter in the shell with a directory of files simulating the data we deal
> with. We have three servers, each with 8G RAM.
>
> Given 1,000 files, each containing a string of 100 characters, in the
> myfiles directory:
>
> val data = sc.textFile("/user/foo/myfiles/*")
>
> val c = data.count
>
> The count operation produces 1,000 tasks. Is this normal?
>
> val cart = data.cartesian(data)
> cart.count
>
> The cartesian operation produces 1M tasks. I understand that the cartesian
> product of 1,000 items against itself is 1M, however, it seems the overhead
> of all this task creation and file I/O of all these tiny files outweighs
> the
> gains of distributed computing. What am I missing here?
>
> Below is the truncated output of the count operation, if this helps
> indicate
> a configuration problem.
>
> Thank you.
>
> scala> data.count
> 14/12/16 07:40:46 INFO FileInputFormat: Total input paths to process : 1000
> 14/12/16 07:40:47 INFO SparkContext: Starting job: count at <console>:15
> 14/12/16 07:40:47 INFO DAGScheduler: Got job 0 (count at <console>:15) with
> 1000 output partitions (allowLocal=false)
> 14/12/16 07:40:47 INFO DAGScheduler: Final stage: Stage 0(count at
> <console>:15)
> 14/12/16 07:40:47 INFO DAGScheduler: Parents of final stage: List()
> 14/12/16 07:40:47 INFO DAGScheduler: Missing parents: List()
> 14/12/16 07:40:47 INFO DAGScheduler: Submitting Stage 0
> (/user/ds/randomfiles/* MappedRDD[3] at textFile at <console>:12), which
> has
> no missing parents
> 14/12/16 07:40:47 INFO MemoryStore: ensureFreeSpace(2400) called with
> curMem=507154, maxMem=278019440
> 14/12/16 07:40:47 INFO MemoryStore: Block broadcast_2 stored as values in
> memory (estimated size 2.3 KB, free 264.7 MB)
> 14/12/16 07:40:47 INFO MemoryStore: ensureFreeSpace(1813) called with
> curMem=509554, maxMem=278019440
> 14/12/16 07:40:47 INFO MemoryStore: Block broadcast_2_piece0 stored as
> bytes
> in memory (estimated size 1813.0 B, free 264.7 MB)
> 14/12/16 07:40:47 INFO BlockManagerInfo: Added broadcast_2_piece0 in memory
> on dev-myserver-1.abc.cloud:44041 (size: 1813.0 B, free: 265.1 MB)
> 14/12/16 07:40:47 INFO BlockManagerMaster: Updated info of block
> broadcast_2_piece0
> 14/12/16 07:40:47 INFO DAGScheduler: Submitting 1000 missing tasks from
> Stage 0 (/user/ds/randomfiles/* MappedRDD[3] at textFile at <console>:12)
> 14/12/16 07:40:47 INFO TaskSchedulerImpl: Adding task set 0.0 with 1000
> tasks
> 14/12/16 07:40:47 INFO TaskSetManager: Starting task 1.0 in stage 0.0 (TID
> 0, dev-myserver-2.abc.cloud, NODE_LOCAL, 1202 bytes)
> 14/12/16 07:40:47 INFO TaskSetManager: Starting task 0.0 in stage 0.0 (TID
> 1, dev-myserver-3.abc.cloud, NODE_LOCAL, 1201 bytes)
> 14/12/16 07:40:47 INFO TaskSetManager: Starting task 2.0 in stage 0.0 (TID
> 2, dev-myserver-1.abc.cloud, NODE_LOCAL, 1203 bytes)
> 14/12/16 07:40:47 INFO TaskSetManager: Starting task 4.0 in stage 0.0 (TID
> 3, dev-myserver-2.abc.cloud, NODE_LOCAL, 1203 bytes)
> 14/12/16 07:40:47 INFO TaskSetManager: Starting task 3.0 in stage 0.0 (TID
> 4, dev-myserver-3.abc.cloud, NODE_LOCAL, 1204 bytes)
> 14/12/16 07:40:47 INFO TaskSetManager: Starting task 5.0 in stage 0.0 (TID
> 5, dev-myserver-1.abc.cloud, NODE_LOCAL, 1203 bytes)
> 14/12/16 07:40:47 INFO ConnectionManager: Accepted connection from
> [dev-myserver-3.abc.cloud/10.40.13.192:36133]
> 14/12/16 07:40:47 INFO ConnectionManager: Accepted connection from
> [dev-myserver-2.abc.cloud/10.40.13.195:35716]
> 14/12/16 07:40:47 INFO ConnectionManager: Accepted connection from
> [dev-myserver-1.abc.cloud/10.40.13.194:33728]
> 14/12/16 07:40:47 INFO SendingConnection: Initiating connection to
> [dev-myserver-1.abc.cloud/10.40.13.194:49458]
> 14/12/16 07:40:47 INFO SendingConnection: Initiating connection to
> [dev-myserver-3.abc.cloud/10.40.13.192:58579]
> 14/12/16 07:40:47 INFO SendingConnection: Initiating connection to
> [dev-myserver-2.abc.cloud/10.40.13.195:52502]
> 14/12/16 07:40:47 INFO SendingConnection: Connected to
> [dev-myserver-3.abc.cloud/10.40.13.192:58579], 1 messages pending
> 14/12/16 07:40:47 INFO SendingConnection: Connected to
> [dev-myserver-1.abc.cloud/10.40.13.194:49458], 1 messages pending
> 14/12/16 07:40:47 INFO SendingConnection: Connected to
> [dev-myserver-2.abc.cloud/10.40.13.195:52502], 1 messages pending
> 14/12/16 07:40:47 INFO BlockManagerInfo: Added broadcast_2_piece0 in memory
> on dev-myserver-1.abc.cloud:49458 (size: 1813.0 B, free: 1060.0 MB)
> 14/12/16 07:40:47 INFO BlockManagerInfo: Added broadcast_2_piece0 in memory
> on dev-myserver-3.abc.cloud:58579 (size: 1813.0 B, free: 1060.0 MB)
> 14/12/16 07:40:47 INFO BlockManagerInfo: Added broadcast_2_piece0 in memory
> on dev-myserver-2.abc.cloud:52502 (size: 1813.0 B, free: 1060.0 MB)
> 14/12/16 07:40:48 INFO BlockManagerInfo: Added broadcast_1_piece0 in memory
> on dev-myserver-3.abc.cloud:58579 (size: 32.5 KB, free: 1060.0 MB)
> 14/12/16 07:40:48 INFO BlockManagerInfo: Added broadcast_1_piece0 in memory
> on dev-myserver-2.abc.cloud:52502 (size: 32.5 KB, free: 1060.0 MB)
> 14/12/16 07:40:48 INFO BlockManagerInfo: Added broadcast_1_piece0 in memory
> on dev-myserver-1.abc.cloud:49458 (size: 32.5 KB, free: 1060.0 MB)
> 14/12/16 07:40:49 INFO TaskSetManager: Starting task 6.0 in stage 0.0 (TID
> 6, dev-myserver-1.abc.cloud, NODE_LOCAL, 1203 bytes)
> 14/12/16 07:40:49 INFO TaskSetManager: Starting task 7.0 in stage 0.0 (TID
> 7, dev-myserver-1.abc.cloud, NODE_LOCAL, 1203 bytes)
> 14/12/16 07:40:49 INFO TaskSetManager: Starting task 19.0 in stage 0.0 (TID
> 8, dev-myserver-2.abc.cloud, NODE_LOCAL, 1203 bytes)
> 14/12/16 07:40:49 INFO TaskSetManager: Starting task 23.0 in stage 0.0 (TID
> 9, dev-myserver-2.abc.cloud, NODE_LOCAL, 1203 bytes)
> 14/12/16 07:40:49 INFO TaskSetManager: Starting task 8.0 in stage 0.0 (TID
> 10, dev-myserver-3.abc.cloud, NODE_LOCAL, 1203 bytes)
> 14/12/16 07:40:49 INFO TaskSetManager: Starting task 9.0 in stage 0.0 (TID
> 11, dev-myserver-3.abc.cloud, NODE_LOCAL, 1203 bytes)
> 14/12/16 07:40:49 INFO TaskSetManager: Finished task 2.0 in stage 0.0 (TID
> 2) in 1964 ms on dev-myserver-1.abc.cloud (1/1000)
> 14/12/16 07:40:49 INFO TaskSetManager: Finished task 1.0 in stage 0.0 (TID
> 0) in 2000 ms on dev-myserver-2.abc.cloud (2/1000)
> 14/12/16 07:40:49 INFO TaskSetManager: Finished task 5.0 in stage 0.0 (TID
> 5) in 1975 ms on dev-myserver-1.abc.cloud (3/1000)
> ....
>
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