Hi, I have a job that hangs after upgrading to spark 1.2.1 from 1.1.1. Strange thing, the exact same code does work (after upgrade) in the spark-shell. But this information might be misleading as it works with 1.1.1...
*The job takes as input two data sets:* - rdd A of +170gb (with less it is hard to reproduce) and more than 11K partitions - rdd B of +100mb and 32 partitions I run it via EMR over YARN and use 4*m3.xlarge computing nodes. I am not sure the executor config is relevant here. Anyway I tried with multiple small executors with fewer ram and the inverse. *The job basically does this:* A.flatMap(...).union(B).keyBy(f).reduceByKey(..., 32).map(...).save After the flatMap rdd A size is much smaller similar to B. *Configs I used to run this job:* storage.memoryFraction: 0 shuffle.memoryFraction: 0.5 akka.timeout 500 akka.frameSize 40 // this one defines also the memory used by yarn master, but not sure if it needs to be important driver.memory 5g excutor.memory 4250m I have 7 executors with 2 cores. *What happens:* The job produces two stages: keyBy and save. The keyBy stage runs fine and produces a shuffle write of ~150mb. The save stage where the suffle read occurs hangs. Greater the initial dataset is more tasks hang. I did run it for much larger datasets with same config/cluster but without doing the union and it worked fine. *Some more infos and logs:* Amongst 4 nodes 1 finished all his tasks and the "running" ones are on the 3 other nodes. But not sure this is a good information (one node that completed all his work vs the others) as with some smaller dataset I manage to get only one hanging task. Here are the last parts of the executor logs that show some timeouts. *An executor from node ip-10-182-98-220* 15/03/13 15:43:10 INFO storage.ShuffleBlockFetcherIterator: Started 6 remote fetches in 66 ms 15/03/13 15:58:44 WARN server.TransportChannelHandler: Exception in connection from /10.181.48.153:56806 java.io.IOException: Connection timed out *An executor from node ip-10-181-103-186* 15/03/13 15:43:22 INFO storage.ShuffleBlockFetcherIterator: Started 6 remote fetches in 20 ms 15/03/13 15:58:41 WARN server.TransportChannelHandler: Exception in connection from /10.182.98.220:38784 java.io.IOException: Connection timed out *An executor from node ip-10-181-48-153* (all the logs bellow belong this node) 15/03/13 15:43:24 INFO executor.Executor: Finished task 26.0 in stage 1.0 (TID 13860). 802 bytes result sent to driver 15/03/13 15:58:43 WARN server.TransportChannelHandler: Exception in connection from /10.181.103.186:46381 java.io.IOException: Connection timed out *Followed by many * 15/03/13 15:58:43 ERROR server.TransportRequestHandler: Error sending result ChunkFetchSuccess{streamChunkId=StreamChunkId{streamId=2064203432016, chunkIndex=405}, buffer=FileSegmentManagedBuffer{file=/mnt/var/lib/hadoop/tmp/nm-local-dir/usercache/hadoop/appcache/application_1426256247374_0002/spark-1659efcd-c6b6-4a12-894d-e869486d3d00/35/shuffle_0_9885_0.data, offset=8631, length=571}} to /10.181.103.186:46381; closing connection java.nio.channels.ClosedChannelException *with last one being* 15/03/13 15:58:43 ERROR server.TransportRequestHandler: Error sending result RpcResponse{requestId=7377187355282895939, response=[B@6fcd0014} to /10.181.103.186:46381; closing connection java.nio.channels.ClosedChannelException The executors from the node that finished his tasks doesn't show anything special. Note that I don't cache anything thus reduced the storage.memoryFraction to 0. I see some of those, but don't think they are related. 15/03/13 15:43:15 INFO storage.MemoryStore: Memory use = 0.0 B (blocks) + 0.0 B (scratch space shared across 0 thread(s)) = 0.0 B. Storage limit = 0.0 B. Sorry for the long email with maybe misleading infos, but I hope it might help to track down what happens and why it was working with spark 1.1.1. Thanks, Eugen