[GitHub] spark pull request: SPARK-929: Fully deprecate usage of SPARK_MEM

2014-03-09 Thread ash211
Github user ash211 commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/99#issuecomment-37155320 I'm used to thinking of Spark standalone clusters as having 4 different "types" of JVMs -- 1 driver, 1 master, N workers, and M executors. Does SPARK_DAEMON

[GitHub] spark pull request: SPARK-1099:Spark's local mode should probably ...

2014-03-09 Thread ash211
Github user ash211 commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/110#issuecomment-37154887 I find that new users often wonder why Spark is only using 1 core, and it's because they expected local to use all their cores rather than defaulting to jus