My driver program runs a spark streaming job. And it spawns a thread by
itself only in the *onStart()* function below Other than that it doesn't
spawn any other threads. It only calls MapToPair, ReduceByKey, forEachRDD,
Collect functions.
public class NSQReceiver extends Receiver<String> {
private String topic="";
public NSQReceiver(String topic) {
super(StorageLevel.MEMORY_AND_DISK_2());
this.topic = topic;
}
@Override
public void *onStart()* {
new Thread() {
@Override public void run() {
receive();
}
}.start();
}
}
Environment info:
Java 8
Scala 2.11.8
Spark 2.0.0
More than happy to share any other info you may need.
On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Jakob Odersky <ja...@odersky.com> wrote:
> > how do I tell my spark driver program to not create so many?
>
> This may depend on your driver program. Do you spawn any threads in
> it? Could you share some more information on the driver program, spark
> version and your environment? It would greatly help others to help you
>
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 3:47 AM, kant kodali <kanth...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The source of my problem is actually that I am running into the following
> > error. This error seems to happen after running my driver program for 4
> > hours.
> >
> > "Exception in thread "ForkJoinPool-50-worker-11" Exception in thread
> > "dag-scheduler-event-loop" Exception in thread
> "ForkJoinPool-50-worker-13"
> > java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: unable to create new native thread"
> >
> > and this wonderful book taught me that the error "unable to create new
> > native thread" can happen because JVM is trying to request the OS for a
> > thread and it is refusing to do so for the following reasons
> >
> > 1. The system has actually run out of virtual memory.
> > 2. On Unix-style systems, the user has already created (between all
> programs
> > user is running) the maximum number of processes configured for that user
> > login. Individual threads are considered a process in that regard.
> >
> > Option #2 is ruled out in my case because my driver programing is running
> > with a userid of root which has maximum number of processes set to
> 120242
> >
> > ulimit -a gives me the following
> >
> > core file size (blocks, -c) 0
> > data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited
> > scheduling priority (-e) 0
> > file size (blocks, -f) unlimited
> > pending signals (-i) 120242
> > max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 64
> > max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited
> > open files (-n) 1024
> > pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8
> > POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200
> > real-time priority (-r) 0
> > stack size (kbytes, -s) 8192
> > cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited
> > max user processes (-u) 120242
> > virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited
> > file locks (-x) unlimited
> >
> > So at this point I do understand that the I am running out of memory due
> to
> > allocation of threads so my biggest question is how do I tell my spark
> > driver program to not create so many?
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 3:25 AM, Sean Owen <so...@cloudera.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> ps -L [pid] is what shows threads. I am not sure this is counting what
> you
> >> think it does. My shell process has about a hundred threads, and I can't
> >> imagine why one would have thousands unless your app spawned them.
> >>
> >> On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 10:20 AM kant kodali <kanth...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> when I do
> >>>
> >>> ps -elfT | grep "spark-driver-program.jar" | wc -l
> >>>
> >>> The result is around 32K. why does it create so many threads how can I
> >>> limit this?
> >
> >
>
