RE: [MLlib] Performance issues when building GBM models

2015-02-09 Thread Christopher Thom
angrui Meng [mailto:men...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, 10 February 2015 7:07 AM To: Christopher Thom Cc: user@spark.apache.org Subject: Re: [MLlib] Performance issues when building GBM models Could you check the Spark UI and see whether there are RDDs being kicked out during the computation? We cache the

Re: [MLlib] Performance issues when building GBM models

2015-02-09 Thread Xiangrui Meng
Could you check the Spark UI and see whether there are RDDs being kicked out during the computation? We cache the residual RDD after each iteration. If we don't have enough memory/disk, it gets recomputed and results something like `t(n) = t(n-1) + const`. We might cache the features multiple times