Hi Amit, Spark keeps the partition that it is working on in memory (and does not spill to disk even if it is running OOM). Also since you are getting OOM when using partitionBy (and not when you just use flatMap), there should be one (or few) dates on which your partition size is bigger than the heap. You can do a count on dates to check if there is skewness in your data.
The way out would be increase the heap size or use columns in partitionBy (like date + hour) to distribute the data better. Hope this helps! Thanks Ankur On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 7:30 PM, 孫澤恩 <gn00710...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, Amit, > > Maybe you can change this configuration spark.sql.shuffle.partitions. > The default is 200 change this property could change the task number when > you are using DataFrame API. > > On 26 Sep 2017, at 1:25 AM, Amit Sela <amit.s...@venmo.com> wrote: > > I'm trying to run a simple pyspark application that reads from file > (json), flattens it (explode) and writes back to file (json) partitioned by > date using DataFrameWriter.partitionBy(*cols). > > I keep getting OOMEs like: > java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space > at org.apache.spark.util.collection.unsafe.sort. > UnsafeSorterSpillWriter.<init>(UnsafeSorterSpillWriter.java:46) > at org.apache.spark.util.collection.unsafe.sort. > UnsafeExternalSorter.spill(UnsafeExternalSorter.java:206) > at org.apache.spark.memory.TaskMemoryManager.acquireExecutionMemory( > TaskMemoryManager.java:203) > ....... > > Explode could make the underlying RDD grow a lot, and maybe in an > unbalanced way sometimes, > adding to that partitioning by date (in daily ETLs for instance) would > probably cause a data skew (right?), but why am I getting OOMs? Isn't Spark > supposed to spill to disk if the underlying RDD is too big to fit in memory? > > If I'm not using "partitionBy" with the writer (still exploding) > everything works fine. > > This happens both in EMR and in local (mac) pyspark/spark shell (tried > both in python and scala). > > Thanks! > > >
