Try reducing the number of workers to 2, and increasing their memory up to 6GB.
However I've seen mention of a bug in the pyspark API for when calling head() on a dataframe in spark 1.5.0 and 1.4, it's got a big performance hit. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-10731 It's fixed in spark 1.5.1 which was released yesterday, so maybe try upgrading. Ewan -----Original Message----- From: camelia [mailto:came...@chalmers.se] Sent: 30 September 2015 10:51 To: user@spark.apache.org Subject: Need for advice - performance improvement and out of memory resolution Hello, I am working on a machine learning project, currently using spark-1.4.1-bin-hadoop2.6 in local mode on a laptop (Ubuntu 14.04 OS running on a Dell laptop with i7-5600@2.6 GHz * 4 cores, 15.6 GB RAM). I also mention working in Python from an IPython notebook. I face the following problem: when working with a Dataframe created from a CSV file (2.7 GB) with schema inferred (1900 features), the time it takes for Spark to count the 145231 rows is 3:30 minutes using 4 cores. Longer times are recorder for computing one feature's statistics, for example: --------------------------------------------START AT: 2015-09-21 08:56:41.136947 +-------+------------------+ |summary| VAR_1933| +-------+------------------+ | count| 145231| | mean| 8849.839111484464| | stddev|3175.7863998269395| | min| 0| | max| 9999| +-------+------------------+ --------------------------------------------FINISH AT: 2015-09-21 09:02:49.452260 So, my first question would be what configuration parameters to set in order to improve this performance? I tried some explicit configuration in the IPython notebook, but specifying resources explicitly when creating the Spark configuration resulted in worse performance; I mean : config = SparkConf().setAppName("cleankaggle").setMaster("local[4]").set("spark.jars", jar_path) worked twice faster than: config = SparkConf().setAppName("cleankaggle").setMaster("local[4]").set("spark.jars", jar_path).set("spark.driver.memory", "2g").set("spark.python.worker.memory ", "3g") **************************** Secondly, when I do the one hot encoding (I tried two different ways of keeping results) I don't arrive at showing the head(1) of the resulted dataframe. We have the function : def OHE_transform(categ_feat, df_old): outputcolname = categ_feat + "_ohe_index" outputcolvect = categ_feat + "_ohe_vector" stringIndexer = StringIndexer(inputCol=categ_feat, outputCol=outputcolname) indexed = stringIndexer.fit(df_old).transform(df_old) encoder = OneHotEncoder(inputCol=outputcolname, outputCol=outputcolvect) encoded = encoder.transform(indexed) return encoded The two manners for keeping results are depicted below: 1) result = OHE_transform(list_top_feat[0], df_top_categ) for item in list_top_feat[1:]: result = OHE_transform(item, result) result.head(1) 2) df_result = OHE_transform("VAR_A", df_top_categ) df_result_1 = OHE_transform("VAR_B", df_result) df_result_2 = OHE_transform("VAR_C", df_result_1) ... df_result_12 = OHE_transform("VAR_X", df_result_11) df_result_12.head(1) In the first approach, at the third iteration (in the for loop), when it was supposed to print the head(1), the IPython notebook remained in the state "Kernel busy" for several hours and then I interrupted the kernel. The second approach managed to go through all transformations (please note that here I eliminated the intermediary prints of the head(1)), but it gave an "out of memory" error at the only (final result) head(1), that I paste below : =============================================== df_result_12.head(1) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Py4JJavaError Traceback (most recent call last) <ipython-input-29-e952d1766630> in <module>() ----> 1 df_result_12.head(1) /home/camelia/spark-1.4.1-bin-hadoop2.6/python/pyspark/sql/dataframe.pyc in head(self, n) 649 rs = self.head(1) 650 return rs[0] if rs else None --> 651 return self.take(n) 652 653 @ignore_unicode_prefix /home/camelia/spark-1.4.1-bin-hadoop2.6/python/pyspark/sql/dataframe.pyc in take(self, num) 305 [Row(age=2, name=u'Alice'), Row(age=5, name=u'Bob')] 306 """ --> 307 return self.limit(num).collect() 308 309 @ignore_unicode_prefix /home/camelia/spark-1.4.1-bin-hadoop2.6/python/pyspark/sql/dataframe.pyc in collect(self) 279 """ 280 with SCCallSiteSync(self._sc) as css: --> 281 port = self._sc._jvm.PythonRDD.collectAndServe(self._jdf.javaToPython().rdd()) 282 rs = list(_load_from_socket(port, BatchedSerializer(PickleSerializer()))) 283 cls = _create_cls(self.schema) /home/camelia/spark-1.4.1-bin-hadoop2.6/python/lib/py4j-0.8.2.1-src.zip/py4j/java_gateway.py in __call__(self, *args) 536 answer = self.gateway_client.send_command(command) 537 return_value = get_return_value(answer, self.gateway_client, --> 538 self.target_id, self.name) 539 540 for temp_arg in temp_args: /home/camelia/spark-1.4.1-bin-hadoop2.6/python/lib/py4j-0.8.2.1-src.zip/py4j/protocol.py in get_return_value(answer, gateway_client, target_id, name) 298 raise Py4JJavaError( 299 'An error occurred while calling {0}{1}{2}.\n'. --> 300 format(target_id, '.', name), value) 301 else: 302 raise Py4JError( Py4JJavaError: An error occurred while calling z:org.apache.spark.api.python.PythonRDD.collectAndServe. : org.apache.spark.SparkException: Job aborted due to stage failure: Task 3 in stage 35.0 failed 1 times, most recent failure: Lost task 3.0 in stage 35.0 (TID 253, localhost): java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded at java.lang.StringBuilder.toString(StringBuilder.java:405) at java.io.ObjectInputStream$BlockDataInputStream.readUTFBody(ObjectInputStream.java:3075) at java.io.ObjectInputStream$BlockDataInputStream.readUTF(ObjectInputStream.java:2871) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readString(ObjectInputStream.java:1638) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1341) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readArray(ObjectInputStream.java:1706) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1344) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:1997) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1921) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1798) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1350) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:1997) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1921) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1798) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1350) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:1997) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1921) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1798) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1350) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:1997) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1921) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1798) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1350) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:1997) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1921) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1798) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1350) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readArray(ObjectInputStream.java:1706) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1344) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:1997) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1921) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1798) Driver stacktrace: at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler.org$apache$spark$scheduler$DAGScheduler$$failJobAndIndependentStages(DAGScheduler.scala:1273) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler$$anonfun$abortStage$1.apply(DAGScheduler.scala:1264) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler$$anonfun$abortStage$1.apply(DAGScheduler.scala:1263) at scala.collection.mutable.ResizableArray$class.foreach(ResizableArray.scala:59) at scala.collection.mutable.ArrayBuffer.foreach(ArrayBuffer.scala:47) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler.abortStage(DAGScheduler.scala:1263) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler$$anonfun$handleTaskSetFailed$1.apply(DAGScheduler.scala:730) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler$$anonfun$handleTaskSetFailed$1.apply(DAGScheduler.scala:730) at scala.Option.foreach(Option.scala:236) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler.handleTaskSetFailed(DAGScheduler.scala:730) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGSchedulerEventProcessLoop.onReceive(DAGScheduler.scala:1457) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGSchedulerEventProcessLoop.onReceive(DAGScheduler.scala:1418) at org.apache.spark.util.EventLoop$$anon$1.run(EventLoop.scala:48) ================================================================= In the second approach, continuing after this error resulted in : Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/SocketServer.py", line 295, in _handle_request_noblock self.process_request(request, client_address) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/SocketServer.py", line 321, in process_request self.finish_request(request, client_address) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/SocketServer.py", line 334, in finish_request self.RequestHandlerClass(request, client_address, self) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/SocketServer.py", line 649, in __init__ self.handle() File "/home/camelia/spark-1.4.1-bin-hadoop2.6/python/pyspark/accumulators.py", line 235, in handle num_updates = read_int(self.rfile) File "/home/camelia/spark-1.4.1-bin-hadoop2.6/python/pyspark/serializers.py", line 544, in read_int raise EOFError EOFError ERROR:py4j.java_gateway:Error while sending or receiving. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/camelia/spark-1.4.1-bin-hadoop2.6/python/lib/py4j-0.8.2.1-src.zip/py4j/java_gateway.py", line 479, in send_command raise Py4JError("Answer from Java side is empty") Py4JError: Answer from Java side is empty ERROR:py4j.java_gateway:An error occurred while trying to connect to the Java server Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/camelia/spark-1.4.1-bin-hadoop2.6/python/lib/py4j-0.8.2.1-src.zip/py4j/java_gateway.py", line 425, in start self.socket.connect((self.address, self.port)) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 224, in meth return getattr(self._sock,name)(*args) error: [Errno 111] Connection refused ERROR:py4j.java_gateway:An error occurred while trying to connect to the Java server Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/camelia/spark-1.4.1-bin-hadoop2.6/python/lib/py4j-0.8.2.1-src.zip/py4j/java_gateway.py", line 425, in start self.socket.connect((self.address, self.port)) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 224, in meth return getattr(self._sock,name)(*args) error: [Errno 111] Connection refused ERROR:py4j.java_gateway:An error occurred while trying to connect to the Java server Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/camelia/spark-1.4.1-bin-hadoop2.6/python/lib/py4j-0.8.2.1-src.zip/py4j/java_gateway.py", line 425, in start self.socket.connect((self.address, self.port)) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 224, in meth return getattr(self._sock,name)(*args) error: [Errno 111] Connection refused ================================================ So, once again it seems that I need to change some configuration parameters to prevent from such out of memory errors. Thank you very much in advance. Camelia -- View this message in context: http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/Need-for-advice-performance-improvement-and-out-of-memory-resolution-tp24886.html Sent from the Apache Spark User List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@spark.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@spark.apache.org
