Github user mateiz commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/50#discussion_r10201195 --- Diff: core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/CacheManager.scala --- @@ -71,10 +71,21 @@ private[spark] class CacheManager(blockManager: BlockManager) extends Logging { val computedValues = rdd.computeOrReadCheckpoint(split, context) // Persist the result, so long as the task is not running locally if (context.runningLocally) { return computedValues } - val elements = new ArrayBuffer[Any] - elements ++= computedValues - blockManager.put(key, elements, storageLevel, tellMaster = true) - elements.iterator.asInstanceOf[Iterator[T]] + if (storageLevel.useDisk && !storageLevel.useMemory) { --- End diff -- This is not the only condition where we want to do this. For example we might also want it for MEMORY_ONLY_SER, where the serialized data might fit in RAM but the ArrayBuffer of raw objects might not. (Especially if you set spark.rdd.compress to compress the serialized data.)
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