Hi, We are running a Spark (2.3.1) job on an EMR cluster with 500 r3.2xlarge (60 GB, 8 vcores, 160 GB SSD ). Driver memory is set to 25GB.
It processes ~40 TB of data using aggregateByKey in which we specify numPartitions = 300,000. Map side tasks succeed, but reduce side tasks all fail. We notice the following driver error: 18/09/07 13:35:03 WARN Utils: Suppressing exception in finally: null java.lang.OutOfMemoryError at java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream.hugeCapacity(ByteArrayOutputStream.java:123) at java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream.grow(ByteArrayOutputStream.java:117) at java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream.ensureCapacity(ByteArrayOutputStream.java:93) at java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream.write(ByteArrayOutputStream.java:153) at java.util.zip.DeflaterOutputStream.deflate(DeflaterOutputStream.java:253) at java.util.zip.DeflaterOutputStream.write(DeflaterOutputStream.java:211) at java.util.zip.GZIPOutputStream.write(GZIPOutputStream.java:145) at java.io.ObjectOutputStream$BlockDataOutputStream.writeBlockHeader(ObjectOutputStream.java:1894) at java.io.ObjectOutputStream$BlockDataOutputStream.drain(ObjectOutputStream.java:1875) at java.io.ObjectOutputStream$BlockDataOutputStream.flush(ObjectOutputStream.java:1822) at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.flush(ObjectOutputStream.java:719) at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.close(ObjectOutputStream.java:740) at org.apache.spark.MapOutputTracker$$anonfun$serializeMapStatuses$2.apply$mcV$sp(MapOutputTracker.scala:790) at org.apache.spark.util.Utils$.tryWithSafeFinally(Utils.scala:1389) at org.apache.spark.MapOutputTracker$.serializeMapStatuses(MapOutputTracker.scala:789) at org.apache.spark.ShuffleStatus.serializedMapStatus(MapOutputTracker.scala:174) at org.apache.spark.MapOutputTrackerMaster$MessageLoop.run(MapOutputTracker.scala:397) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) Exception in thread "map-output-dispatcher-0" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError at java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream.hugeCapacity(ByteArrayOutputStream.java:123) at java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream.grow(ByteArrayOutputStream.java:117) at java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream.ensureCapacity(ByteArrayOutputStream.java:93) at java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream.write(ByteArrayOutputStream.java:153) at java.util.zip.DeflaterOutputStream.deflate(DeflaterOutputStream.java:253) at java.util.zip.DeflaterOutputStream.write(DeflaterOutputStream.java:211) at java.util.zip.GZIPOutputStream.write(GZIPOutputStream.java:145) at java.io.ObjectOutputStream$BlockDataOutputStream.writeBlockHeader(ObjectOutputStream.java:1894) at java.io.ObjectOutputStream$BlockDataOutputStream.drain(ObjectOutputStream.java:1875) at java.io.ObjectOutputStream$BlockDataOutputStream.setBlockDataMode(ObjectOutputStream.java:1786) at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject0(ObjectOutputStream.java:1189) at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeArray(ObjectOutputStream.java:1378) at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject0(ObjectOutputStream.java:1174) at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject(ObjectOutputStream.java:348) at org.apache.spark.MapOutputTracker$$anonfun$serializeMapStatuses$1.apply$mcV$sp(MapOutputTracker.scala:787) at org.apache.spark.MapOutputTracker$$anonfun$serializeMapStatuses$1.apply(MapOutputTracker.scala:786) at org.apache.spark.MapOutputTracker$$anonfun$serializeMapStatuses$1.apply(MapOutputTracker.scala:786) at org.apache.spark.util.Utils$.tryWithSafeFinally(Utils.scala:1380) at org.apache.spark.MapOutputTracker$.serializeMapStatuses(MapOutputTracker.scala:789) at org.apache.spark.ShuffleStatus.serializedMapStatus(MapOutputTracker.scala:174) at org.apache.spark.MapOutputTrackerMaster$MessageLoop.run(MapOutputTracker.scala:397) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) Suppressed: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError at java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream.hugeCapacity(ByteArrayOutputStream.java:123) at java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream.grow(ByteArrayOutputStream.java:117) at java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream.ensureCapacity(ByteArrayOutputStream.java:93) at java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream.write(ByteArrayOutputStream.java:153) at java.util.zip.DeflaterOutputStream.deflate(DeflaterOutputStream.java:253) at java.util.zip.DeflaterOutputStream.write(DeflaterOutputStream.java:211) at java.util.zip.GZIPOutputStream.write(GZIPOutputStream.java:145) at java.io.ObjectOutputStream$BlockDataOutputStream.writeBlockHeader(ObjectOutputStream.java:1894) at java.io.ObjectOutputStream$BlockDataOutputStream.drain(ObjectOutputStream.java:1875) at java.io.ObjectOutputStream$BlockDataOutputStream.flush(ObjectOutputStream.java:1822) at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.flush(ObjectOutputStream.java:719) at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.close(ObjectOutputStream.java:740) at org.apache.spark.MapOutputTracker$$anonfun$serializeMapStatuses$2.apply$mcV$sp(MapOutputTracker.scala:790) at org.apache.spark.util.Utils$.tryWithSafeFinally(Utils.scala:1389) ... 6 more We found this reference (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-1239 <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-1239&sa=D&source=hangouts&ust=1536416255076000&usg=AFQjCNF5KWUuXDr9ZWNn4Geos1sQlpKHwA>) to a similar issue that was closed in 2016. Please advise, Harel.