Thanks Cody. I reported the core dump as an issue on the Spark JIRA and a developer diagnosed it as an openJDK issue.
So I switched over to Oracle Java 8 and... no more core dumps on the examples. I reported the openJDK issue at the icedtea Bugzilla. Looks like I'm off and running with Spark on an ARM Chromebook! On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Cody Koeninger <c...@koeninger.org> wrote: > There are hardware recommendations at > http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/hardware-provisioning.html but > they're overkill for just testing things out. You should be able to get > meaningful work done with 2 m3large for instance. > > On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 8:27 AM, Amy Brown <testingwithf...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Brand new to Spark and to big data technologies in general. Eventually >> I'd like to contribute to the testing effort on Spark. >> >> I have an ARM Chromebook at my disposal: that's it for the moment. I can >> vouch that it's OK for sending Hive queries to an AWS EMR cluster via SQL >> Workbench. >> >> I ran the SparkPI example using the prebuilt Hadoop 2.4 package and got a >> fatal error. I can post that error log if anyone wants to see it, but I >> want to rule out the obvious cause. >> >> Can anyone make recommendations as to minimum system requirements for >> using Spark - for example, with an AWS EMR cluster? I didn't see any on the >> Spark site. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Amy Brown >> > >
