Also, if not already done, you may want to try repartition your data to 50 partition s On 6 May 2015 05:56, "Manu Kaul" <manohar.k...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All, > For a job I am running on Spark with a dataset of say 350,000 lines (not > big), I am finding that even though my cluster has a large number of cores > available (like 100 cores), the Spark system seems to stop after using just > 4 cores and after that the runtime is pretty much a straight line no matter > how many more cores are thrown at it. I am wondering if Spark tries to > figure out the maximum no. of cores to use based on the size of the > dataset? If yes, is there a way to disable this feature and force it to use > all the cores available? > > Thanks, > Manu > > -- > > The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and > falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. > - Michelangelo >