Hello spark users and developers! I am using hdfs + spark sql + hive schema + parquet as storage format. I have lot of parquet files - one files fits one hdfs block for one day. The strange thing is very slow first query for spark sql.
To reproduce situation I use only one core and I have 97sec for first time and only 13sec for all next queries. Sure I query for different data, but it has same structure and size. The situation can be reproduced after restart thrift server. Here it information about parquet files reading from worker node: Slow one: Oct 10, 2014 2:26:53 PM INFO: parquet.hadoop.InternalParquetRecordReader: Assembled and processed 1560251 records from 30 columns in 11686 ms: 133.51454 rec/ms, 4005.4363 cell/ms Fast one: Oct 10, 2014 2:31:30 PM INFO: parquet.hadoop.InternalParquetRecordReader: Assembled and processed 1568899 records from 1 columns in 1373 ms: 1142.6796 rec/ms, 1142.6796 cell/ms As you can see second reading is 10x times faster then first. Most of the query time spent to work with parquet file. This problem is really annoying, because most of my spark task contains just 1 sql query and data processing and to speedup my jobs I put special warmup query in from of any job. My assumption is that it is hotspot optimizations that used due first reading. Do you have any idea how to confirm/solve this performance problem? Thanks for advice! p.s. I have billion hotspot optimization showed with -XX:+PrintCompilation but can not figure out what are important and what are not.
