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Patrick Wendell updated SPARK-4550: ----------------------------------- Target Version/s: 1.4.0 > In sort-based shuffle, store map outputs in serialized form > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: SPARK-4550 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-4550 > Project: Spark > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Shuffle, Spark Core > Affects Versions: 1.2.0 > Reporter: Sandy Ryza > Attachments: SPARK-4550-design-v1.pdf > > > One drawback with sort-based shuffle compared to hash-based shuffle is that > it ends up storing many more java objects in memory. If Spark could store > map outputs in serialized form, it could > * spill less often because the serialized form is more compact > * reduce GC pressure > This will only work when the serialized representations of objects are > independent from each other and occupy contiguous segments of memory. E.g. > when Kryo reference tracking is left on, objects may contain pointers to > objects farther back in the stream, which means that the sort can't relocate > objects without corrupting them. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@spark.apache.org