In the master, you can easily profile you job, find the bottlenecks,
see https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/2556

Could you try it and show the stats?

Davies

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 7:51 AM, Marius Soutier <mps....@gmail.com> wrote:
> It’s an AWS cluster that is rather small at the moment, 4 worker nodes @ 28
> GB RAM and 4 cores, but fast enough for the currently 40 Gigs a day. Data is
> on HDFS in EBS volumes. Each file is a Gzip-compress collection of JSON
> objects, each one between 115-120 MB to be near the HDFS block size.
>
> One core per worker is permanently used by a job that allows SQL queries
> over Parquet files.
>
> On 22.10.2014, at 16:18, Arian Pasquali <ar...@arianpasquali.com> wrote:
>
> Interesting thread Marius,
> Btw, I'm curious about your cluster size.
> How small it is in terms of ram and cores.
>
> Arian
>
> 2014-10-22 13:17 GMT+01:00 Nicholas Chammas <nicholas.cham...@gmail.com>:
>>
>> Total guess without knowing anything about your code: Do either of these
>> two notes from the 1.1.0 release notes 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 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
>>>> >
>>>> >
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>>>
>>>
>>
>
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