on spark 1.5.2 I have a spark standalone cluster with 6 workers , I left the cluster idle for 3 days and after 3 days I saw only 4 workers on the spark master UI , 2 workers died with the same exception -
Strange part is cluster was running stable for 2 days but on third day 2 workers abruptly died . I am see this error in one of the affected worker . No job ran for 2 days. 2016-02-14 01:12:59 ERROR Worker:75 - Connection to master failed! Waiting for master to reconnect...2016-02-14 01:12:59 ERROR Worker:75 - Connection to master failed! Waiting for master to reconnect...2016-02-14 01:13:10 ERROR SparkUncaughtExceptionHandler:96 - Uncaught exception in thread Thread[sparkWorker-akka.actor.default-dispatcher-2,5,main]java.util.concurrent.RejectedExecutionException: Task java.util.concurrent.FutureTask@514b13ad rejected from java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor@17f8ec8d[Running, pool size = 1, active threads = 1, queued tasks = 0, completed tasks = 3] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$AbortPolicy.rejectedExecution(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:2048) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.reject(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:821) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.execute(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1372) at java.util.concurrent.AbstractExecutorService.submit(AbstractExecutorService.java:110) at org.apache.spark.deploy.worker.Worker$$anonfun$org$apache$spark$deploy$worker$Worker$$reregisterWithMaster$1.apply$mcV$sp(Worker.scala:269) at org.apache.spark.util.Utils$.tryOrExit(Utils.scala:1119) at org.apache.spark.deploy.worker.Worker.org$apache$spark$deploy$worker$Worker$$reregisterWithMaster(Worker.scala:234) at org.apache.spark.deploy.worker.Worker$$anonfun$receive$1.applyOrElse(Worker.scala:521) at org.apache.spark.rpc.akka.AkkaRpcEnv.org$apache$spark$rpc$akka$AkkaRpcEnv$$processMessage(AkkaRpcEnv.scala:177) at org.apache.spark.rpc.akka.AkkaRpcEnv$$anonfun$actorRef$lzycompute$1$1$$anon$1$$anonfun$receiveWithLogging$1$$anonfun$applyOrElse$4.apply$mcV$sp(AkkaRpcEnv.scala:126) at org.apache.spark.rpc.akka.AkkaRpcEnv.org$apache$spark$rpc$akka$AkkaRpcEnv$$safelyCall(AkkaRpcEnv.scala:197) at org.apache.spark.rpc.akka.AkkaRpcEnv$$anonfun$actorRef$lzycompute$1$1$$anon$1$$anonfun$receiveWithLogging$1.applyOrElse(AkkaRpcEnv.scala:125) at scala.runtime.AbstractPartialFunction$mcVL$sp.apply$mcVL$sp(AbstractPartialFunction.scala:33) at scala.runtime.AbstractPartialFunction$mcVL$sp.apply(AbstractPartialFunction.scala:33) at scala.runtime.AbstractPartialFunction$mcVL$sp.apply(AbstractPartialFunction.scala:25) at org.apache.spark.util.ActorLogReceive$$anon$1.apply(ActorLogReceive.scala:59) at org.apache.spark.util.ActorLogReceive$$anon$1.apply(ActorLogReceive.scala:42) at scala.PartialFunction$class.applyOrElse(PartialFunction.scala:118) at org.apache.spark.util.ActorLogReceive$$anon$1.applyOrElse(ActorLogReceive.scala:42) at akka.actor.Actor$class.aroundReceive(Actor.scala:467) at org.apache.spark.rpc.akka.AkkaRpcEnv$$anonfun$actorRef$lzycompute$1$1$$anon$1.aroundReceive(AkkaRpcEnv.scala:92) at akka.actor.ActorCell.receiveMessage(ActorCell.scala:516) at akka.actor.ActorCell.invoke(ActorCell.scala:487) at akka.dispatch.Mailbox.processMailbox(Mailbox.scala:238) at akka.dispatch.Mailbox.run(Mailbox.scala:220) at akka.dispatch.ForkJoinExecutorConfigurator$AkkaForkJoinTask.exec(AbstractDispatcher.scala:397) at scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinTask.doExec(ForkJoinTask.java:260) at scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinPool$WorkQueue.runTask(ForkJoinPool.java:1339) at scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinPool.runWorker(ForkJoinPool.java:1979) at scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinWorkerThread.run(ForkJoinWorkerThread.java:107) down votefavorite <http://t.sidekickopen35.com/e1t/c/5/f18dQhb0S7lC8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9nMJW7t5XZs4WrRx6W4XyGfn7gbDClW5vMqt056dBqBf8x44FH02?t=http%3A%2F%2Fstackoverflow.com%2Fquestions%2F35402516%2Fspark-workers-dropping-off-after-couple-of-days%23&si=5102319033384960&pi=a5b195e6-0a48-4ec8-80a6-176be5a0ebe5>