Marcelo Vanzin created SPARK-17387: -------------------------------------- Summary: Creating SparkContext() from python without spark-submit ignores user conf Key: SPARK-17387 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-17387 Project: Spark Issue Type: Bug Components: PySpark Affects Versions: 2.0.0 Reporter: Marcelo Vanzin Priority: Minor
Consider the following scenario: user runs a python application not through spark-submit, but by adding the pyspark module and manually creating a Spark context. Kinda like this: {noformat} $ SPARK_HOME=$PWD PYTHONPATH=python:python/lib/py4j-0.10.3-src.zip python Python 2.7.12 (default, Jul 1 2016, 15:12:24) [GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from pyspark import SparkContext >>> from pyspark import SparkConf >>> conf = SparkConf().set("spark.driver.memory", "4g") >>> sc = SparkContext(conf=conf) {noformat} If you look at the JVM launched by the pyspark code, it ignores the user's configuration: {noformat} $ ps ax | grep $(pgrep -f SparkSubmit) 12283 pts/2 Sl+ 0:03 /apps/java7/bin/java -cp ... -Xmx1g -XX:MaxPermSize=256m org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit pyspark-shell {noformat} Note the "1g" of memory. If instead you use "pyspark", you get the correct "4g" in the JVM. This also affects other configs; for example, you can't really add jars to the driver's classpath using "spark.jars". You can work around this by setting the undocumented env variable Spark itself uses: {noformat} $ SPARK_HOME=$PWD PYTHONPATH=python:python/lib/py4j-0.10.3-src.zip python Python 2.7.12 (default, Jul 1 2016, 15:12:24) [GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import os >>> os.environ['PYSPARK_SUBMIT_ARGS'] = "pyspark-shell --conf >>> spark.driver.memory=4g" >>> from pyspark import SparkContext >>> sc = SparkContext() {noformat} But it would be nicer if the configs were automatically propagated. BTW the reason for this is that the {{launch_gateway}} function used to start the JVM does not take any parameters, and the only place where it reads arguments for Spark is that env variable. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@spark.apache.org