Github user andrewor14 commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/126#discussion_r10543349 --- Diff: core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/MapOutputTracker.scala --- @@ -181,15 +186,49 @@ private[spark] class MapOutputTracker(conf: SparkConf) extends Logging { } } +/** + * MapOutputTracker for the workers. This uses BoundedHashMap to keep track of + * a limited number of most recently used map output information. + */ +private[spark] class MapOutputTrackerWorker(conf: SparkConf) extends MapOutputTracker(conf) { + + /** + * Bounded HashMap for storing serialized statuses in the worker. This allows + * the HashMap stay bounded in memory-usage. Things dropped from this HashMap will be + * automatically repopulated by fetching them again from the driver. + */ + protected val MAX_MAP_STATUSES = 100 --- End diff -- Is this arbitrary? These bounds appear in other places too. Maybe we should make them configurable too.
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