If you want finer-grained max rate setting, SPARK-17510 got merged a
while ago.  There's also SPARK-18580 which might help address the
issue of starting backpressure rate for the first batch.

On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 4:18 PM, Liren Ding <sky.gonna.bri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Does backressure actually work on spark kafka streaming? According to the
> latest spark streaming document:
> http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/streaming-programming-guide.html
> "In Spark 1.5, we have introduced a feature called backpressure that
> eliminate the need to set this rate limit, as Spark Streaming automatically
> figures out the rate limits and dynamically adjusts them if the processing
> conditions change. This backpressure can be enabled by setting the
> configuration parameter spark.streaming.backpressure.enabled to true."
> But I also see a few open spark jira tickets on this option:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-7398
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-18371
>
> The case in the second ticket describes a similar issue as we have here. We
> use Kafka to send large batches (10~100M) to spark streaming, and the spark
> streaming interval is set to 1~4 minutes. With the backpressure set to true,
> the queued active batches still pile up when average batch processing time
> takes longer than default interval. After the spark driver is restarted, all
> queued batches turn to a giant batch, which block subsequent batches and
> also have a great chance to fail eventually. The only config we found that
> might help is "spark.streaming.kafka.maxRatePerPartition". It does limit the
> incoming batch size, but not a perfect solution since it depends on size of
> partition as well as the length of batch interval. For our case, hundreds of
> partitions X minutes of interval still produce a number that is too large
> for each batch. So we still want to figure out how to make the backressure
> work in spark kafka streaming, if it is supposed to work there. Thanks.
>
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> Liren
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