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Mridul Muralidharan commented on SPARK-1476: -------------------------------------------- WIP Proposal: - All references to ByteBuffer will need to be replaced with Seq[ByteBuffer]. This applies to definition of a block, memory mapped file segments for a shuffle block, etc. - All use of byte array backed outputstream will need to be replaced with a aggregating outputstream which writes to multiple boas as and when array limits are hit. > 2GB limit in spark for blocks > ----------------------------- > > Key: SPARK-1476 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-1476 > Project: Spark > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Spark Core > Environment: all > Reporter: Mridul Muralidharan > Priority: Critical > > The underlying abstraction for blocks in spark is a ByteBuffer : which limits > the size of the block to 2GB. > This has implication not just for managed blocks in use, but also for shuffle > blocks (memory mapped blocks are limited to 2gig, even though the api allows > for long), ser-deser via byte array backed outstreams (SPARK-1391), etc. > This is a severe limitation for use of spark when used on non trivial > datasets. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)