Hi,
I’ve recently bumped up the resources for a spark streaming job – and the
performance started to degrade over time.
it was running fine on 7 nodes with 14 executor cores each (via Yarn) until I
bumped executor.cores to 22 cores/node (out of 32 on AWS c3.xlarge, 24 for yarn)
The driver has 2 cores and 2 GB ram (usage is at zero).
For really low data volume it goes from 1-2 seconds per batch to 4-5 s/batch
after about 6 hours, doing almost nothing. I’ve noticed that the scheduler
delay is 3-4s, even 5-6 seconds for some tasks. Should be in the low tens of
milliseconds. What’s weirder is that under moderate load (thousands of events
per second) - the delay is not as obvious anymore.
After this I reduced the executor.cores to 20 and bumped driver.cores to 4 and
it seems to be ok now.
However, this is totally empirical, I have not found any documentation, code
samples or email discussion on how to properly set driver.cores.
Does anyone know:
* If I assign more cores to the driver/application manager, will it use
them?
* I was looking at the process list with htop and only one of the jvm’s
on the driver was really taking up CPU time
* What is a decent parallelism factor for a streaming app with 10-20 secs
batch time? I found it odd that at 7 x 22 = 154 the driver is becoming a
bottleneck
* I’ve seen people recommend 3-4 taks/core or ~1000 parallelism for
clusters in the tens of nodes
Thanks in advance,
-adrian
