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Marcelo Vanzin commented on SPARK-18838:
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I'd be interested in seeing logs from an application not using dynamic
allocation that hangs because of this issue. I was under the impression that
the scheduler was pretty isolated from the listener bus and things should work,
even if you can't tell that they are from the UI.
I think there's a consensus about what the solution is (implementing queues so
that slow listeners can be isolated), and perhaps once that's done we can even
think about adding blocking (since we can then control which listeners can
block the listener bus - e.g. we can make the dynamic allocation listener
blocking, but the event log listener is allowed to drop events). There are even
a couple of PRs opened, but since this is a very core part of the Spark code,
there's going to be more scrutiny about the code that is being written.
> High latency of event processing for large jobs
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> Key: SPARK-18838
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-18838
> Project: Spark
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 2.0.0
> Reporter: Sital Kedia
> Attachments: perfResults.pdf, SparkListernerComputeTime.xlsx
>
>
> Currently we are observing the issue of very high event processing delay in
> driver's `ListenerBus` for large jobs with many tasks. Many critical
> component of the scheduler like `ExecutorAllocationManager`,
> `HeartbeatReceiver` depend on the `ListenerBus` events and this delay might
> hurt the job performance significantly or even fail the job. For example, a
> significant delay in receiving the `SparkListenerTaskStart` might cause
> `ExecutorAllocationManager` manager to mistakenly remove an executor which is
> not idle.
> The problem is that the event processor in `ListenerBus` is a single thread
> which loops through all the Listeners for each event and processes each event
> synchronously
> https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/scheduler/LiveListenerBus.scala#L94.
> This single threaded processor often becomes the bottleneck for large jobs.
> Also, if one of the Listener is very slow, all the listeners will pay the
> price of delay incurred by the slow listener. In addition to that a slow
> listener can cause events to be dropped from the event queue which might be
> fatal to the job.
> To solve the above problems, we propose to get rid of the event queue and the
> single threaded event processor. Instead each listener will have its own
> dedicate single threaded executor service . When ever an event is posted, it
> will be submitted to executor service of all the listeners. The Single
> threaded executor service will guarantee in order processing of the events
> per listener. The queue used for the executor service will be bounded to
> guarantee we do not grow the memory indefinitely. The downside of this
> approach is separate event queue per listener will increase the driver memory
> footprint.
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