I'm seeing the following message in the log of an executor. Anyone seen this error? After this, the executor seems to lose the cache, and but besides that the whole thing slows down drastically - I.e. it gets stuck in a reduce phase for 40+ minutes, whereas before it was finishing reduces in 2~3 seconds.
14/06/25 19:22:31 WARN SendingConnection: Error writing in connection to ConnectionManagerId(alpinenode7.alpinenow.local,46251) java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.spark.network.MessageChunkHeader.buffer$lzycompute(MessageChunkHeader.scala:35) at org.apache.spark.network.MessageChunkHeader.buffer(MessageChunkHeader.scala:32) at org.apache.spark.network.MessageChunk.buffers$lzycompute(MessageChunk.scala:31) at org.apache.spark.network.MessageChunk.buffers(MessageChunk.scala:29) at org.apache.spark.network.SendingConnection.write(Connection.scala:349) at org.apache.spark.network.ConnectionManager$$anon$5.run(ConnectionManager.scala:142) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:724)