Total guess without knowing anything about your code: Do either of these two notes from the 1.1.0 release notes <http://spark.apache.org/releases/spark-release-1-1-0.html> affect things at all?
- PySpark now performs external spilling during aggregations. Old behavior can be restored by setting spark.shuffle.spill to false. - PySpark uses a new heuristic for determining the parallelism of shuffle operations. Old behavior can be restored by setting spark.default.parallelism to the number of cores in the cluster. Nick On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 7:29 AM, Marius Soutier <mps....@gmail.com> wrote: > We’re using 1.1.0. Yes I expected Scala to be maybe twice as fast, but not > that... > > On 22.10.2014, at 13:02, Nicholas Chammas <nicholas.cham...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > What version of Spark are you running? Some recent changes > <https://spark.apache.org/releases/spark-release-1-1-0.html> to how > PySpark works relative to Scala Spark may explain things. > > PySpark should not be that much slower, not by a stretch. > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 6:11 AM, Ashic Mahtab <as...@live.com> wrote: > >> I'm no expert, but looked into how the python bits work a while back (was >> trying to assess what it would take to add F# support). It seems python >> hosts a jvm inside of it, and talks to "scala spark" in that jvm. The >> python server bit "translates" the python calls to those in the jvm. The >> python spark context is like an adapter to the jvm spark context. If you're >> seeing performance discrepancies, this might be the reason why. If the code >> can be organised to require fewer interactions with the adapter, that may >> improve things. Take this with a pinch of salt...I might be way off on this >> :) >> >> Cheers, >> Ashic. >> >> > From: mps....@gmail.com >> > Subject: Python vs Scala performance >> > Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 12:00:41 +0200 >> > To: user@spark.apache.org >> >> > >> > Hi there, >> > >> > we have a small Spark cluster running and are processing around 40 GB >> of Gzip-compressed JSON data per day. I have written a couple of word >> count-like Scala jobs that essentially pull in all the data, do some joins, >> group bys and aggregations. A job takes around 40 minutes to complete. >> > >> > Now one of the data scientists on the team wants to do write some jobs >> using Python. To learn Spark, he rewrote one of my Scala jobs in Python. >> From the API-side, everything looks more or less identical. However his >> jobs take between 5-8 hours to complete! We can also see that the execution >> plan is quite different, I’m seeing writes to the output much later than in >> Scala. >> > >> > Is Python I/O really that slow? >> > >> > >> > Thanks >> > - Marius >> > >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org >> > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@spark.apache.org >> > >> > > >
