Yes and at least there is an override by setting spark.sql.test.master to local[8] , in fact local[16] worked on my 8 core box.
I'm happy to use this as a workaround but the 32 hard-coded will fail running build/tests on a clean checkout if you only have 8 cores. On 15 September 2015 at 17:40, Marcelo Vanzin <van...@cloudera.com> wrote: > That test explicitly sets the number of executor cores to 32. > > object TestHive > extends TestHiveContext( > new SparkContext( > System.getProperty("spark.sql.test.master", "local[32]"), > > > On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 11:22 PM, Reynold Xin <r...@databricks.com> wrote: > > Yea I think this is where the heuristics is failing -- it uses 8 cores to > > approximate the number of active tasks, but the tests somehow is using 32 > > (maybe because it explicitly sets it to that, or you set it yourself? I'm > > not sure which one) > > > > On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 11:06 PM, Pete Robbins <robbin...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> Reynold, thanks for replying. > >> > >> getPageSize parameters: maxMemory=515396075, numCores=0 > >> Calculated values: cores=8, default=4194304 > >> > >> So am I getting a large page size as I only have 8 cores? > >> > >> On 15 September 2015 at 00:40, Reynold Xin <r...@databricks.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> Pete - can you do me a favor? > >>> > >>> > >>> > https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/shuffle/ShuffleMemoryManager.scala#L174 > >>> > >>> Print the parameters that are passed into the getPageSize function, and > >>> check their values. > >>> > >>> On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Reynold Xin <r...@databricks.com> > wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Is this on latest master / branch-1.5? > >>>> > >>>> out of the box we reserve only 16% (0.2 * 0.8) of the memory for > >>>> execution (e.g. aggregate, join) / shuffle sorting. With a 3GB heap, > that's > >>>> 480MB. So each task gets 480MB / 32 = 15MB, and each operator > reserves at > >>>> least one page for execution. If your page size is 4MB, it only takes > 3 > >>>> operators to use up its memory. > >>>> > >>>> The thing is page size is dynamically determined -- and in your case > it > >>>> should be smaller than 4MB. > >>>> > https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/shuffle/ShuffleMemoryManager.scala#L174 > >>>> > >>>> Maybe there is a place that in the maven tests that we explicitly set > >>>> the page size (spark.buffer.pageSize) to 4MB? If yes, we need to find > it and > >>>> just remove it. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 4:16 AM, Pete Robbins <robbin...@gmail.com> > >>>> wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> I keep hitting errors running the tests on 1.5 such as > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> - join31 *** FAILED *** > >>>>> Failed to execute query using catalyst: > >>>>> Error: Job aborted due to stage failure: Task 9 in stage 3653.0 > >>>>> failed 1 times, most recent failure: Lost task 9.0 in stage 3653.0 > (TID > >>>>> 123363, localhost): java.io.IOException: Unable to acquire 4194304 > bytes of > >>>>> memory > >>>>> at > >>>>> > org.apache.spark.util.collection.unsafe.sort.UnsafeExternalSorter.acquireNewPage(UnsafeExternalSorter.java:368) > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> This is using the command > >>>>> build/mvn -Pyarn -Phadoop-2.2 -Phive -Phive-thriftserver test > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> I don't see these errors in any of the amplab jenkins builds. Do > those > >>>>> builds have any configuration/environment that I may be missing? My > build is > >>>>> running with whatever defaults are in the top level pom.xml, eg > -Xmx3G. > >>>>> > >>>>> I can make these tests pass by setting > spark.shuffle.memoryFraction=0.6 > >>>>> in the HiveCompatibilitySuite rather than the default 0.2 value. > >>>>> > >>>>> Trying to analyze what is going on with the test it is related to the > >>>>> number of active tasks, which seems to rise to 32, and so the > >>>>> ShuffleMemoryManager allows less memory per task even though most of > those > >>>>> tasks do not have any memory allocated to them. > >>>>> > >>>>> Has anyone seen issues like this before? > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >> > > > > > > -- > Marcelo >