The main reason I wanted them separate was that people might use Akka in their 
own application for other things. As such, the Spark Akka properties only 
affect Akka instances started by Spark. I think we should keep them separate to 
avoid messing with users' applications.

Matei

On Sep 28, 2013, at 7:28 PM, Evan Chan <[email protected]> wrote:

> On a related note, there are tons of spark.akka.* properties.
> 
> Does anyone see why we should not just use the base akka.* properties
> defined by Akka itself?  Right now the code simply maps spark.akka.* to
> akka.* when starting Akka.
> 
> The only reasons I see for keeping spark.akka is that we might not want
> people fiddling with the base Akka properties.  On the other hand, Akka's
> documentation is excellent, and using akka's own config properties means we
> no longer need to keep up with this shim layer.
> 
> -Evan
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Matei Zaharia <[email protected]>wrote:
> 
>> Hi Evan,
>> 
>> I think this is an old property that isn't used anymore, so it would be
>> good to clean it up and get rid of it.
>> 
>> Matei
>> 
>> On Sep 28, 2013, at 6:23 PM, Evan Chan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hey guys,
>>> 
>>> Does anyone see a reason to keep the "spark.hostPort" system property
>>> around?
>>> 
>>> It is cleared by lots of tests, set in two places (SparkEnv, and
>>> StandaloneExecutorBackend),
>>> and only used as follows:
>>> 
>>> Utils.localHostPort() reads it
>>> localHostPort is called from
>>> - BlockManager (which calls it, but _never_ uses the resulting output!)
>>> - MapOutputTracker (which passes it as a value, not sure to where)
>>> 
>>> Just trying to clean house on properties.
>>> 
>>> thanks,
>>> Evan
>>> 
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>> 
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