That matches my mental model -- glad to hear we're converging on one though for consistency.
Thanks guys! On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 1:45 AM, Patrick Wendell <[email protected]> wrote: > Ya we've been trying to standardize on the terminology here (see glossary): > > http://spark.incubator.apache.org/docs/latest/cluster-overview.html > > I think "slave" actually isn't mentioned here at all - but references > to slave in the codebase are synonymous with "worker". > > - Patrick > > On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 10:42 PM, Reynold Xin <[email protected]> wrote: > > It is historic. > > > > I think we are converging towards > > > > worker: the "slave" daemon in the standalone cluster manager > > > > executor: the jvm process that is launched by the worker that executes > tasks > > > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 10:39 PM, Andrew Ash <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> The terms worker and slave seem to be used interchangeably. Are they > the > >> same? > >> > >> Worker is used more frequently in the codebase: > >> > >> aash@aash-mbp ~/git/spark$ git grep -i worker | wc -l > >> 981 > >> aash@aash-mbp ~/git/spark$ git grep -i slave | wc -l > >> 348 > >> aash@aash-mbp ~/git/spark$ > >> > >> Does it make sense to unify on one or the other? > >> >
