My program in pseudocode looks like this: val conf = new SparkConf().setAppName("Test") .set("spark.storage.memoryFraction","0.2") // default 0.6 .set("spark.shuffle.memoryFraction","0.12") // default 0.2 .set("spark.shuffle.manager","SORT") // preferred setting for optimized joins .set("spark.shuffle.consolidateFiles","true") // helpful for "too many files open" .set("spark.mesos.coarse", "true") // helpful for MapOutputTracker errors? .set("spark.akka.frameSize","500") // helpful when using consildateFiles=true .set("spark.akka.askTimeout", "30") .set("spark.shuffle.compress","false") // http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/Fetch-Failure-tp20787p20811.html .set("spark.file.transferTo","false") // http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/Fetch-Failure-tp20787p20811.html .set("spark.core.connection.ack.wait.timeout","600") // http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/Fetch-Failure-tp20787p20811.html .set("spark.speculation","true") .set("spark.worker.timeout","600") // http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/Heartbeat-exceeds-td3798.html .set("spark.akka.timeout","300") // http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/Heartbeat-exceeds-td3798.html .set("spark.storage.blockManagerSlaveTimeoutMs","120000") .set("spark.driver.maxResultSize","2048") // in response to error: Total size of serialized results of 39901 tasks (1024.0 MB) is bigger than spark.driver.maxResultSize (1024.0 MB) .set("spark.serializer", "org.apache.spark.serializer.KryoSerializer") .set("spark.kryo.registrator","com.att.bdcoe.cip.ooh.MyRegistrator") .set("spark.kryo.registrationRequired", "true")
val rdd1 = sc.textFile(file1).persist(StorageLevel.MEMORY_AND_DISK_SER).map(_.split("\\|", -1)...filter(...) val rdd2 = sc.textFile(file2).persist(StorageLevel.MEMORY_AND_DISK_SER).map(_.split("\\|", -1)...filter(...) rdd2.union(rdd1).map(...).filter(...).groupByKey().map(...).flatMap(...).saveAsTextFile() I run the code with: --num-executors 500 \ --driver-memory 20g \ --executor-memory 20g \ --executor-cores 32 \ I'm using kryo serialization on everything, including broadcast variables. Spark creates 145k tasks, and the first stage includes everything before groupByKey(). It fails before getting to groupByKey. I have tried doubling and tripling the number of partitions when calling textFile, with no success. Very similar code (trivial changes, to accomodate different input) worked on a smaller input (~8TB)... Not that it was easy to get that working. Errors vary, here is what I am getting right now: ERROR SendingConnection: Exception while reading SendingConnection ... java.nio.channels.ClosedChannelException (^ guessing that is symptom of something else) WARN BlockManagerMasterActor: Removing BlockManager BlockManagerId(...) with no recent heart beats: 120030ms exceeds 120000ms (^ guessing that is symptom of something else) ERROR ActorSystemImpl: Uncaught fatal error from thread (...) shutting down ActorSystem [sparkDriver] *java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded* Other times I will get messages about "executor lost..." about 1 message per second, after ~~50k tasks complete, until there are almost no executors left and progress slows to nothing. I ran with verbose GC info; I do see failing yarn containers that have multiple (like 30) "Full GC" messages but I don't know how to interpret if that is the problem. Typical Full GC time taken seems ok: [Times: user=23.30 sys=0.06, real=1.94 secs] Suggestions, please? Huge thanks for useful suggestions, Arun