I'm working on a program that takes an RDD of file names and runs a flatMap operation on the loading function to produce an RDD of loaded values. If I take that RDD and then call saveAsHadoopFile, the program works fine. However, I need to do a reduceByKey, and the total amount of data is larger then the available memory in the cluster, so I started getting JavaHeap errors and GC overhead errors. That was expected, and I knew the next step would be to run persist with one of the DISK options, but I kept getting memory errors. I've simplified the problem, just trying to run persist before running saveAsHadoopFile (skipping the reduceByKey), and I still get memory errors. I've tried MEMORY_AND_DISK and DISK_ONLY, and still get the memory errors. I've tried setting spark.executor.memory=2g and spark.storage.memoryFraction=0.25, no dice. Switching to 'org.apache.spark.serializer.KryoSerializer' doesn't help either.
TL;DR (spark.executor.memory = 512m) myInputs.flatMap( readFile(_) ).saveAsHadoopFile( ... ) : Works fine (spark.executor.memory = 2g) myInputs.flatMap( readFile(_) ).persist(MEMORY_AND_DISK).saveAsHadoopFile( ... ) : Lots of memory java.lang.OutOfMemoryError exceptions (example below). Any ideas of things I could try? Kyle Typical error: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded at java.io.ObjectOutputStream$HandleTable.growSpine(ObjectOutputStream.java:2295) at java.io.ObjectOutputStream$HandleTable.assign(ObjectOutputStream.java:2240) at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeString(ObjectOutputStream.java:1262) at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject0(ObjectOutputStream.java:1144) at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.defaultWriteFields(ObjectOutputStream.java:1509) at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeSerialData(ObjectOutputStream.java:1474) at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeOrdinaryObject(ObjectOutputStream.java:1392) at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject0(ObjectOutputStream.java:1150) at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.defaultWriteFields(ObjectOutputStream.java:1509) at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeSerialData(ObjectOutputStream.java:1474) at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeOrdinaryObject(ObjectOutputStream.java:1392) at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject0(ObjectOutputStream.java:1150) at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeArray(ObjectOutputStream.java:1338) at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject0(ObjectOutputStream.java:1146) at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.defaultWriteFields(ObjectOutputStream.java:1509) at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeSerialData(ObjectOutputStream.java:1474) at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeOrdinaryObject(ObjectOutputStream.java:1392) at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject0(ObjectOutputStream.java:1150) at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject(ObjectOutputStream.java:326) at org.apache.spark.serializer.JavaSerializationStream.writeObject(JavaSerializer.scala:27) at org.apache.spark.serializer.SerializationStream$class.writeAll(Serializer.scala:80) at org.apache.spark.serializer.JavaSerializationStream.writeAll(JavaSerializer.scala:25) at org.apache.spark.storage.DiskStore.putValues(DiskStore.scala:178) at org.apache.spark.storage.BlockManager.liftedTree1$1(BlockManager.scala:618) at org.apache.spark.storage.BlockManager.put(BlockManager.scala:604) at org.apache.spark.CacheManager.getOrCompute(CacheManager.scala:75) at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.iterator(RDD.scala:224) at org.apache.spark.rdd.MappedRDD.compute(MappedRDD.scala:29) at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.computeOrReadCheckpoint(RDD.scala:237) at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.iterator(RDD.scala:226) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.ResultTask.run(ResultTask.scala:99) at org.apache.spark.executor.Executor$TaskRunner.run(Executor.scala:158)
