You can use custom partitioner to redistribution using partitionby
On 4 May 2015 15:37, "Nick Travers" <n.e.trav...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm currently trying to join two large tables (order 1B rows each) using
> Spark SQL (1.3.0) and am running into long GC pauses which bring the job to
> a halt.
>
> I'm reading in both tables using a HiveContext with the underlying files
> stored as Parquet Files. I'm using something along the lines of
> HiveContext.sql("SELECT a.col1, b.col2 FROM a JOIN b ON a.col1 = b.col1")
> to
> set up the join.
>
> When I execute this (with an action such as .count) I see the first few
> stages complete, but the job eventually stalls. The GC counts keep
> increasing for each executor.
>
> Running with 6 workers, each with 2T disk and 100GB RAM.
>
> Has anyone else run into this issue? I'm thinking I might be running into
> issues with the shuffling of the data, but I'm unsure of how to get around
> this? Is there a way to redistribute the rows based on the join key first,
> and then do the join?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
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