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Frederick Reiss updated SPARK-17386:
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    Priority: Minor  (was: Major)

> Default polling and trigger intervals cause excessive RPC calls
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>                 Key: SPARK-17386
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-17386
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Streaming
>            Reporter: Frederick Reiss
>            Priority: Minor
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> The default trigger interval for a Structured Streaming query is 
> {{ProcessingTime(0)}}, i.e. "trigger new microbatches as fast as possible". 
> When the trigger is set to this default value, the scheduler in 
> {{StreamExecution}} will spin in a tight loop calling {{getOffset()}} every 
> 10 msec on every {{Source}} until new data arrives.
> In test cases, where most of the sources are {{MemoryStream}} or 
> {{TextSocketSource}}, this spinning leads to excessive CPU usage.
> In a production environment, this spinning could take down critical 
> infrastructure. Most sources in Spark clusters will be {{FileStreamSource}} 
> or the not-yet-written Kafka 0.10 Source. The {{getOffset()}} method of 
> {{FileStreamSource}} performs a directory listing of an HDFS directory. If 
> the scheduler calls {{FileStreamSource.getOffset()}} in a tight loop, Spark 
> will make hundreds of RPC calls per second to the HDFS NameNode. This 
> overhead could disrupt service to other systems using HDFS, including Spark 
> itself. A similar situation will exist with the Kafka source, the 
> {{getOffset()}} method of which will presumably call Kafka's 
> {{Consumer.poll()}} method.



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