If your network is bandwidth-bound, you'll see setting jumbo frames (MTU 9000) may increase bandwidth up to ~20%.
http://docs.hortonworks.com/HDP2Alpha/index.htm#Hardware_Recommendations_for_Hadoop.htm "Enabling Jumbo Frames across the cluster improves bandwidth" If Spark workload is not network bandwidth-bound, I can see it'll be a few percent to no improvement. -- Ruslan Dautkhanov On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 6:08 PM, Simon Edelhaus <edel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hmmmm.... > > 2% huh. > > > -- ttfn > Simon Edelhaus > California 2015 > > On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Mark Hamstra <m...@clearstorydata.com> > wrote: > >> https://spark-summit.org/2015/events/making-sense-of-spark-performance/ >> >> On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 3:24 PM, Simon Edelhaus <edel...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi All! >>> >>> How important would be a significant performance improvement to TCP/IP >>> itself, in terms of >>> overall job performance improvement. Which part would be most >>> significantly accelerated? >>> Would it be HDFS? >>> >>> -- ttfn >>> Simon Edelhaus >>> California 2015 >>> >> >> >