Thanks for this tip.

I ran it in yarn-client mode with driver-memory = 4G and took a dump once the 
heap got close to 4G.

 num    #instances      #bytes          class name
----------------------------------------------
   1:   446169          3661137256      [J
   2:   2032795         222636720       [C
   3:   8992            57717200        [B
   4:   2031653         48759672        java.lang.String
   5:   920263          22086312        scala.collection.immutable.$colon$colon
   6:   156233          20495936        [Ljava.lang.Object;


So, somehow there’s 3.5G worth of Long arrays in there, each one apparently 
using about 8k of heap. Digging into the instances of these reveals that the 
vast majority of these are identical long[] of size 1024 with each element set 
to -1 (8,216 bytes).

I’m at a bit of a loss as to what this could be. Any ideas how I can understand 
what’s happening?

Andrew



From:  Ashish Rangole
Date:  Thursday, 27 August 2015 15:24
To:  Andrew Rowson
Cc:  user, "ewan.le...@realitymine.com"
Subject:  Re: Driver running out of memory - caused by many tasks?


I suggest taking a heap dump of driver process using jmap. Then open that dump 
in a tool like Visual VM to see which object(s) are taking up heap space. It is 
easy to do. We did this and found out that in our case it was the data 
structure that
 stores info about stages, jobs and tasks. There can be other reasons as well, 
of course.

On Aug 27, 2015 4:17 AM, <andrew.row...@thomsonreuters.com> wrote:

I should have mentioned: yes I am using Kryo and have registered KeyClass and 
ValueClass.



I guess it’s not clear to me what is actually taking up space on the driver 
heap - I can’t see how it can be data with the code that I have.

On 27/08/2015 12:09, "Ewan Leith" <ewan.le...@realitymine.com> wrote:

>Are you using the Kryo serializer? If not, have a look at it, it can save a 
>lot of memory during shuffles
>
>https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/tuning.html
>
>I did a similar task and had various issues with the volume of data being 
>parsed in one go, but that helped a lot. It looks like the main difference 
>from what you're doing to me is that my input classes were just a string and a 
>byte array, which I then processed
 once it was read into the RDD, maybe your classes are memory heavy?
>
>
>Thanks,
>Ewan
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: andrew.row...@thomsonreuters.com 
>[mailto:andrew.row...@thomsonreuters.com]
>Sent: 27 August 2015 11:53
>To: user@spark.apache.org
>Subject: Driver running out of memory - caused by many tasks?
>
>I have a spark v.1.4.1 on YARN job where the first stage has ~149,000 tasks 
>(it’s reading a few TB of data). The job itself is fairly simple - it’s just 
>getting a list of distinct values:
>
>    val days = spark
>      .sequenceFile(inputDir, classOf[KeyClass], classOf[ValueClass])
>      .sample(withReplacement = false, fraction = 0.01)
>      .map(row => row._1.getTimestamp.toString("yyyy-MM-dd"))
>      .distinct()
>      .collect()
>
>The cardinality of the ‘day’ is quite small - there’s only a handful. However, 
>I’m frequently running into OutOfMemory issues on the driver. I’ve had it fail 
>with 24GB RAM, and am currently nudging it upwards to find out where it works. 
>The ratio between input
 and shuffle write in the distinct stage is about 3TB:7MB. On a smaller 
dataset, it works without issue on a smaller (4GB) heap. In YARN cluster mode, 
I get a failure message similar to:
>
>    Container 
> [pid=36844,containerID=container_e15_1438040390147_4982_01_000001] is running 
> beyond physical memory limits. Current usage: 27.6 GB of 27 GB physical 
> memory used; 29.5 GB of 56.7 GB virtual memory used. Killing container.
>
>
>Is the driver running out of memory simply due to the number of tasks, or is 
>there something about the job program that’s causing it to put a lot of data 
>into the driver heap and go oom? If the former, is there any general guidance 
>about the amount of memory
 to give to the driver as a function of how many tasks there are?
>
>Andrew

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