I'm getting this really reliably on Spark 1.2.1. Basically I'm in local mode with parallelism at 8. I have 222 tasks and I never seem to get far past 40. Usually in the 20s to 30s it will just hang. The last logging is below, and a screenshot of the UI.
2015-02-25 20:39:55.779 GMT-0800 INFO [task-result-getter-3] TaskSetManager - Finished task 3.0 in stage 16.0 (TID 22) in 612 ms on localhost (1/5) 2015-02-25 20:39:55.825 GMT-0800 INFO [Executor task launch worker-10] Executor - Finished task 1.0 in stage 16.0 (TID 20). 2492 bytes result sent to driver 2015-02-25 20:39:55.825 GMT-0800 INFO [Executor task launch worker-8] Executor - Finished task 2.0 in stage 16.0 (TID 21). 2492 bytes result sent to driver 2015-02-25 20:39:55.831 GMT-0800 INFO [task-result-getter-0] TaskSetManager - Finished task 1.0 in stage 16.0 (TID 20) in 670 ms on localhost (2/5) 2015-02-25 20:39:55.836 GMT-0800 INFO [task-result-getter-1] TaskSetManager - Finished task 2.0 in stage 16.0 (TID 21) in 674 ms on localhost (3/5) 2015-02-25 20:39:55.891 GMT-0800 INFO [Executor task launch worker-9] Executor - Finished task 0.0 in stage 16.0 (TID 19). 2492 bytes result sent to driver 2015-02-25 20:39:55.896 GMT-0800 INFO [task-result-getter-2] TaskSetManager - Finished task 0.0 in stage 16.0 (TID 19) in 740 ms on localhost (4/5) [image: Inline image 1] What should I make of this? Where do I start? Thanks, Victor