Re: Using RDD.checkpoint to recover app failure

2016-07-22 Thread Jacek Laskowski
Hi, You may want to evaluate Spark JobServer or Livy or something that would keep your SparkContext alive. Pozdrawiam, Jacek Laskowski https://medium.com/@jaceklaskowski/ Mastering Apache Spark http://bit.ly/mastering-apache-spark Follow me at https://twitter.com/jaceklaskowski On Thu, Jul

Using RDD.checkpoint to recover app failure

2016-07-21 Thread harelglik
I am writing a Spark application that has many iterations. I am planning to checkpoint on every Nth iteration to cut the graph of my rdd and clear previous shuffle files. I would also like to be able to restart my application completely using the last checkpoint. I understand that regular checkpoi