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Sean Owen commented on SPARK-14560:
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Even with the fix for SPARK-4452, I observed a problem like what's described
here: running out of memory in the shuffle read phase rather inexplicably,
which was worked around with numElementsForceSpillThreshold.
It turned out that enabling Java serialization caused the problem to go away
entirely. This was in Spark 1.6. No idea why, but leaving this as a note for
anyone who may find it, or if we later connect the dots elsewhere to an
underlying problem.
> Cooperative Memory Management for Spillables
> --------------------------------------------
>
> Key: SPARK-14560
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-14560
> Project: Spark
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Spark Core
> Affects Versions: 1.6.1
> Reporter: Imran Rashid
> Assignee: Lianhui Wang
> Fix For: 2.0.0
>
>
> SPARK-10432 introduced cooperative memory management for SQL operators that
> can spill; however, {{Spillable}} s used by the old RDD api still do not
> cooperate. This can lead to memory starvation, in particular on a
> shuffle-to-shuffle stage, eventually resulting in errors like:
> {noformat}
> 16/03/28 08:59:54 INFO memory.TaskMemoryManager: Memory used in task 3081
> 16/03/28 08:59:54 INFO memory.TaskMemoryManager: Acquired by
> org.apache.spark.shuffle.sort.ShuffleExternalSorter@69ab0291: 32.0 KB
> 16/03/28 08:59:54 INFO memory.TaskMemoryManager: 1317230346 bytes of memory
> were used by task 3081 but are not associated with specific consumers
> 16/03/28 08:59:54 INFO memory.TaskMemoryManager: 1317263114 bytes of memory
> are used for execution and 1710484 bytes of memory are used for storage
> 16/03/28 08:59:54 ERROR executor.Executor: Managed memory leak detected; size
> = 1317230346 bytes, TID = 3081
> 16/03/28 08:59:54 ERROR executor.Executor: Exception in task 533.0 in stage
> 3.0 (TID 3081)
> java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Unable to acquire 75 bytes of memory, got 0
> at
> org.apache.spark.memory.MemoryConsumer.allocatePage(MemoryConsumer.java:120)
> at
> org.apache.spark.shuffle.sort.ShuffleExternalSorter.acquireNewPageIfNecessary(ShuffleExternalSorter.java:346)
> at
> org.apache.spark.shuffle.sort.ShuffleExternalSorter.insertRecord(ShuffleExternalSorter.java:367)
> at
> org.apache.spark.shuffle.sort.UnsafeShuffleWriter.insertRecordIntoSorter(UnsafeShuffleWriter.java:237)
> at
> org.apache.spark.shuffle.sort.UnsafeShuffleWriter.write(UnsafeShuffleWriter.java:164)
> at
> org.apache.spark.scheduler.ShuffleMapTask.runTask(ShuffleMapTask.scala:73)
> at
> org.apache.spark.scheduler.ShuffleMapTask.runTask(ShuffleMapTask.scala:41)
> at org.apache.spark.scheduler.Task.run(Task.scala:89)
> at
> org.apache.spark.executor.Executor$TaskRunner.run(Executor.scala:214)
> at
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
> at
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
> {noformat}
> This can happen anytime the shuffle read side requires more memory than what
> is available for the task. Since the shuffle-read side doubles its memory
> request each time, it can easily end up acquiring all of the available
> memory, even if it does not use it. Eg., say that after the final spill, the
> shuffle-read side requires 10 MB more memory, and there is 15 MB of memory
> available. But if it starts at 2 MB, it will double to 4, 8, and then
> request 16 MB of memory, and in fact get all available 15 MB. Since the 15
> MB of memory is sufficient, it will not spill, and will continue holding on
> to all available memory. But this leaves *no* memory available for the
> shuffle-write side. Since the shuffle-write side cannot request the
> shuffle-read side to free up memory, this leads to an OOM.
> The simple solution is to make {{Spillable}} implement {{MemoryConsumer}} as
> well, so RDDs can benefit from the cooperative memory management introduced
> by SPARK-10342.
> Note that an additional improvement would be for the shuffle-read side to
> simple release unused memory, without spilling, in case that would leave
> enough memory, and only spill if that was inadequate. However that can come
> as a later improvement.
> *Workaround*: You can set
> {{spark.shuffle.spill.numElementsForceSpillThreshold=N}} to force spilling to
> occur every {{N}} elements, thus preventing the shuffle-read side from ever
> grabbing all of the available memory. However, this requires careful tuning
> of {{N}} to specific workloads: too big, and you will still get an OOM; too
> small, and there will be so much spilling that performance will suffer
> drastically. Furthermore, this workaround uses an *undocumented*
> configuration with *no compatibility guarantees* for future versions of spark.
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