Github user mridulm commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/43#discussion_r10189405
--- Diff: core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/storage/DiskStore.scala ---
@@ -84,12 +84,27 @@ private class DiskStore(blockManager: BlockManager,
diskManager: DiskBlockManage
override def getBytes(blockId: BlockId): Option[ByteBuffer] = {
val segment = diskManager.getBlockLocation(blockId)
val channel = new RandomAccessFile(segment.file, "r").getChannel()
- val buffer = try {
- channel.map(MapMode.READ_ONLY, segment.offset, segment.length)
- } finally {
- channel.close()
+
+ val buffer =
+ // For small files, directly read rather than memory map
+ if (segment.length < 2 * 4096) {
--- End diff --
I would rather have a hidden config param which can be tuned if required
(however rarely), as opposed to have magic values which actually have no
experimental basis.
The impact of this PR is not just in memory usage, but also in the IO
characteristics of spark.
In particular, this is going to have significant performance impact if
there are a large number of small files : which are fairly common - and in a
lot of times, like in our experiments, aggressively aimed towards for the
performance characterstics we are shooting for.
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