Thanks for reply Wenchen, I am curious as what happens when RDD goes out of scope when it is not cached.
Nasrulla From: Wenchen Fan <cloud0...@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2019 6:28 AM To: Nasrulla Khan Haris <nasrulla.k...@microsoft.com.invalid> Cc: dev@spark.apache.org Subject: Re: RDD object Out of scope. RDD is kind of a pointer to the actual data. Unless it's cached, we don't need to clean up the RDD. On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 1:48 PM Nasrulla Khan Haris <nasrulla.k...@microsoft.com.invalid<mailto:nasrulla.k...@microsoft.com.invalid>> wrote: HI Spark developers, Can someone point out the code where RDD objects go out of scope ?. I found the contextcleaner<https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fapache%2Fspark%2Fblob%2Fmaster%2Fcore%2Fsrc%2Fmain%2Fscala%2Forg%2Fapache%2Fspark%2FContextCleaner.scala%23L178&data=02%7C01%7CNasrulla.Khan%40microsoft.com%7C81b54c9707834f297cc408d6ddf03381%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636940421061281654&sdata=ifd7sXnbwxIuzPXW2hIrhI%2BZN9kLccglY7W%2B%2BDJmbZI%3D&reserved=0> code in which only persisted RDDs are cleaned up in regular intervals if the RDD is registered to cleanup. I have not found where the destructor for RDD object is invoked. I am trying to understand when RDD cleanup happens when the RDD is not persisted. Thanks in advance, appreciate your help. Nasrulla
