So in your code, each Receiver will start a new thread. Did you stop the
receiver properly in `Receiver.onStop`? Otherwise, you may leak threads
after a receiver crashes and is restarted by Spark. However, this may be
the root cause since the leak threads are in the driver side. Could you use
`jstack` to check which types of threads are leaking?
On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 11:50 AM, kant kodali <kanth...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am also under the assumption that *onStart *function of the Receiver is
> only called only once by Spark. please correct me if I am wrong.
>
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 11:35 AM, kant kodali <kanth...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> My driver program runs a spark streaming job. And it spawns a thread by
>> itself only in the *onStart()* function below Other than that it doesn't
>> spawn any other threads. It only calls MapToPair, ReduceByKey, forEachRDD,
>> Collect functions.
>>
>> public class NSQReceiver extends Receiver<String> {
>>
>> private String topic="";
>>
>> public NSQReceiver(String topic) {
>> super(StorageLevel.MEMORY_AND_DISK_2());
>> this.topic = topic;
>> }
>>
>> @Override
>> public void *onStart()* {
>> new Thread() {
>> @Override public void run() {
>> receive();
>> }
>> }.start();
>> }
>>
>> }
>>
>>
>> Environment info:
>>
>> Java 8
>>
>> Scala 2.11.8
>>
>> Spark 2.0.0
>>
>> More than happy to share any other info you may need.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Jakob Odersky <ja...@odersky.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> > how do I tell my spark driver program to not create so many?
>>>
>>> This may depend on your driver program. Do you spawn any threads in
>>> it? Could you share some more information on the driver program, spark
>>> version and your environment? It would greatly help others to help you
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 3:47 AM, kant kodali <kanth...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > The source of my problem is actually that I am running into the
>>> following
>>> > error. This error seems to happen after running my driver program for 4
>>> > hours.
>>> >
>>> > "Exception in thread "ForkJoinPool-50-worker-11" Exception in thread
>>> > "dag-scheduler-event-loop" Exception in thread
>>> "ForkJoinPool-50-worker-13"
>>> > java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: unable to create new native thread"
>>> >
>>> > and this wonderful book taught me that the error "unable to create new
>>> > native thread" can happen because JVM is trying to request the OS for a
>>> > thread and it is refusing to do so for the following reasons
>>> >
>>> > 1. The system has actually run out of virtual memory.
>>> > 2. On Unix-style systems, the user has already created (between all
>>> programs
>>> > user is running) the maximum number of processes configured for that
>>> user
>>> > login. Individual threads are considered a process in that regard.
>>> >
>>> > Option #2 is ruled out in my case because my driver programing is
>>> running
>>> > with a userid of root which has maximum number of processes set to
>>> 120242
>>> >
>>> > ulimit -a gives me the following
>>> >
>>> > core file size (blocks, -c) 0
>>> > data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited
>>> > scheduling priority (-e) 0
>>> > file size (blocks, -f) unlimited
>>> > pending signals (-i) 120242
>>> > max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 64
>>> > max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited
>>> > open files (-n) 1024
>>> > pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8
>>> > POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200
>>> > real-time priority (-r) 0
>>> > stack size (kbytes, -s) 8192
>>> > cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited
>>> > max user processes (-u) 120242
>>> > virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited
>>> > file locks (-x) unlimited
>>> >
>>> > So at this point I do understand that the I am running out of memory
>>> due to
>>> > allocation of threads so my biggest question is how do I tell my spark
>>> > driver program to not create so many?
>>> >
>>> > On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 3:25 AM, Sean Owen <so...@cloudera.com> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> ps -L [pid] is what shows threads. I am not sure this is counting
>>> what you
>>> >> think it does. My shell process has about a hundred threads, and I
>>> can't
>>> >> imagine why one would have thousands unless your app spawned them.
>>> >>
>>> >> On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 10:20 AM kant kodali <kanth...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> when I do
>>> >>>
>>> >>> ps -elfT | grep "spark-driver-program.jar" | wc -l
>>> >>>
>>> >>> The result is around 32K. why does it create so many threads how can
>>> I
>>> >>> limit this?
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>
>>
>
