Re: Infinite Loop in Spark

2016-10-27 Thread Mark Hamstra
Using a single SparkContext for an extended period of time is how long-running Spark Applications such as the Spark Job Server work ( https://github.com/spark-jobserver/spark-jobserver). It's an established pattern. On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 11:46 AM, Gervásio Santos wrote: >

Infinite Loop in Spark

2016-10-27 Thread Gervásio Santos
Hi guys! I'm developing an application in Spark that I'd like to run continuously. It would execute some actions, sleep for a while and go again. I was thinking of doing it in a standard infinite loop way. val sc = while (true) { doStuff(...) sleep(...) } I would be running this (fairly