Github user rxin commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/2470#issuecomment-56277279
It's more than that. We use estimated sizes to track the total size of
outstanding fetches, and try to bound that to a certain size in case an
executor sends too many requests and runs out of memory.
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