Thanks Andrew but I am asking specific to driver memory not about executors
memory. We have just one master and if each jobs driver.memory=4g and
master nodes total memory is 16gb then we can not execute more than 4 jobs
at a time.

On Monday, October 7, 2019, Andrew Melo <andrew.m...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Amit
>
> On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 18:33 Amit Sharma <resolve...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Can you please help me understand this. I believe driver programs runs on
>> master node
>
> If we are running 4 spark job and driver memory config is 4g then total 16
>> 6b would be used of master node.
>
>
> This depends on what master/deploy mode you're using: if it's "local"
> master and "client mode" then yes tasks execute in the same JVM as the
> driver. In this case though, the driver JVM uses whatever much space is
> allocated for the driver regardless of how many threads you have.
>
>
> So if we will run more jobs then we need more memory on master. Please
>> correct me if I am wrong.
>>
>
> This depends on your application, but in general more threads will require
> more memory.
>
>
>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Amit
>>
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