On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 7:10 PM, Michael Armbrust <mich...@databricks.com> wrote:
> What about the memory leak bug? >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-11293 >> Even after the memory rewrite in 1.6.0, it still happens in some cases. >> Will it be fixed for 1.6.1? >> > > I think we have enough issues queued up that I would not hold the release > for that, but if there is a patch we should try and review it. We can > always do 1.6.2 when more issues have been resolved. Is this an actual > issue that is affecting a production workload or are we concerned about an > edge case? > The way we (Lynx Analytics) use RDDs, this affects almost everything we do in production. Thankfully it does not cause any issues, it just logs a lot of errors. I think the adverse effect may be that the memory manager does not have a fully correct picture. But as long as the leak fits in the "other" (unmanaged) memory fraction this will not cause issues. We don't see this as an urgent issue. Thanks!