Re: spark worker and yarn memory

2014-06-05 Thread Xu (Simon) Chen
Nice explanation... Thanks! On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Sandy Ryza wrote: > Hi Xu, > > As crazy as it might sound, this all makes sense. > > There are a few different quantities at play here: > * the heap size of the executor (controlled by --executor-memory) > * the amount of memory spark

Re: spark worker and yarn memory

2014-06-05 Thread Sandy Ryza
Hi Xu, As crazy as it might sound, this all makes sense. There are a few different quantities at play here: * the heap size of the executor (controlled by --executor-memory) * the amount of memory spark requests from yarn (the heap size plus 384 mb to account for fixed memory costs outside if the