Go for Fair scheduler and different weights. Default is FIFO. If you are feeling adventurous try out sparrow scheduler . Regards Mayur On Feb 1, 2014 4:12 AM, "Timothee Besset" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > What are my options to balance resources between multiple applications > running against a Spark cluster? > > I am using the standalone cluster [1] setup on my local machine, and > starting a single application uses all the available cores. As long as that > first application is running, no other application does any processing. > > I tried to run more workers using less cores with SPARK_WORKER_CORES, but > the single application still takes everything (see > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1529870/spark%20-%20multiple%20applications.png). > > Is there any strategy to reallocate resources based on number of > applications running against the cluster, or is the design mostly geared > towards having a single application running at a time? > > Thank you, > TTimo > > [1] http://spark.incubator.apache.org/docs/latest/spark-standalone.html > >
