Re: Spark Executor retries infinitely

2016-02-01 Thread Prabhu Joseph
Thanks Ted. My concern is how to avoid these kind of user errors on a production cluster, it would be better if Spark handles this instead of creating an Executor for every second and fails and overloading the Spark Master. Shall i report a Spark JIRA to handle this. Thanks, Prabhu Joseph On Mo

Re: Spark Executor retries infinitely

2016-02-01 Thread Ted Yu
I haven't found config knob for controlling the retry count after brief search. According to http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/java/g1gc-1984535.html , default value for -XX:ParallelGCThreads= seems to be 8. This seems to explain why you got the VM initialization error. FYI On Mon, Feb