I think I figured it out. I am playing around with the Cassandra connector and I had a method that inserted some data into a locally-running Cassandra instance, but I forgot to close the Cluster object. I guess that left some non-daemon thread running and kept the process for exiting. Nothing to see here, move along. :)
On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 2:44 PM Mohammed Guller <moham...@glassbeam.com> wrote: > No, you don’t need to do anything special. Perhaps, your application is > getting stuck somewhere? If you can share your code, someone may be able to > help. > > > > Mohammed > > > > *From:* James Carman [mailto:ja...@carmanconsulting.com] > *Sent:* Friday, May 1, 2015 5:53 AM > *To:* user@spark.apache.org > *Subject:* Exiting "driver" main() method... > > > > In all the examples, it seems that the spark application doesn't really do > anything special in order to exit. When I run my application, however, the > spark-submit script just "hangs" there at the end. Is there something > special I need to do to get that thing to exit normally? >
