Its helpful to always include the output of df.explain(true) when you are
asking about performance.
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 6:14 PM, Deepak Gopalakrishnan <dgk...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I'm trying to join 2 dataframes A and B with a
>
> sqlContext.sql("SELECT * FROM A INNER JOIN B ON A.a=B.a");
>
> Now what I have done is that I have registeredTempTables for A and B after
> loading these DataFrames from different sources. I need the join to be
> really fast and I was wondering if there is a way to use the SQL statement
> and then being able to do a mapper side join ( say my table B is small) ?
>
> I read some articles on using broadcast to do mapper side joins. Could I
> do something like this and then execute my sql statement to achieve mapper
> side join ?
>
> DataFrame B = sparkContext.broadcast(B);
> B.registerTempTable("B");
>
>
> I have a join as stated above and I see in my executor logs the below :
>
> 16/02/29 17:02:35 INFO TaskSetManager: Finished task 198.0 in stage 7.0
> (TID 1114) in 20354 ms on localhost (196/200)
>
> 16/02/29 17:02:35 INFO ShuffleBlockFetcherIterator: Getting 200 non-empty
> blocks out of 200 blocks
>
> 16/02/29 17:02:35 INFO ShuffleBlockFetcherIterator: Started 0 remote
> fetches in 0 ms
>
> 16/02/29 17:02:35 INFO ShuffleBlockFetcherIterator: Getting 1 non-empty
> blocks out of 128 blocks
>
> 16/02/29 17:02:35 INFO ShuffleBlockFetcherIterator: Started 0 remote
> fetches in 0 ms
>
> 16/02/29 17:03:03 INFO Executor: Finished task 199.0 in stage 7.0 (TID
> 1115). 2511 bytes result sent to driver
>
> 16/02/29 17:03:03 INFO TaskSetManager: Finished task 199.0 in stage 7.0
> (TID 1115) in 27621 ms on localhost (197/200)
>
> *16/02/29 17:07:06 INFO UnsafeExternalSorter: Thread 124 spilling sort
> data of 256.0 KB to disk (0 time so far)*
>
>
> Now, I have around 10G of executor memory and my memory faction should be
> the default ( 0.75 as per the documentation) and my memory usage is < 1.5G(
> obtained from the Storage tab on Spark dashboard), but still it says
> spilling sort data. I'm a little surprised why this happens even when I
> have enough memory free.
>
> Any inputs will be greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks
> --
> Regards,
> *Deepak Gopalakrishnan*
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>
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