Re: Re: Question about Memory Used and VCores Used

Thanks Sandy, it is very useful! bit1...@163.com From: Sandy Ryza Date: 2015-04-29 15:24 To: bit1...@163.com CC: user Subject: Re: Question about Memory Used and VCores Used Hi, Good question. The extra memory comes from spark.yarn.executor.memoryOverhead, the space used for the

Re: Question about Memory Used and VCores Used

Hi, Good question. The extra memory comes from spark.yarn.executor.memoryOverhead, the space used for the application master, and the way the YARN rounds requests up. This explains it in a little more detail: http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2015/03/how-to-tune-your-apache-spark-jobs-part-2/ -Sand

Question about Memory Used and VCores Used

Hi,guys, I have the following computation with 3 workers: spark-sql --master yarn --executor-memory 3g --executor-cores 2 --driver-memory 1g -e 'select count(*) from table' The resources used are shown as below on the UI: I don't understand why the memory used is 15GB and vcores used is 5. I thin