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Matthew Farrellee commented on SPARK-677:
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this can also be used to address the fragile nature of py4j connection
construction. the parent can create the fifo.
> PySpark should not collect results through local filesystem
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> Key: SPARK-677
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-677
> Project: Spark
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: PySpark
> Affects Versions: 0.7.0
> Reporter: Josh Rosen
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> Py4J is slow when transferring large arrays, so PySpark currently dumps data
> to the disk and reads it back in order to collect() RDDs. On large enough
> datasets, this data will spill from the buffer cache and write to the
> physical disk, resulting in terrible performance.
> Instead, we should stream the data from Java to Python over a local socket or
> a FIFO.
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