Gerard Maas created SPARK-8009:
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Summary: [Mesos] Allow provisioning of executor logging
configuration
Key: SPARK-8009
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-8009
Project: Spark
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Mesos
Affects Versions: 1.3.1
Environment: Mesos executor
Reporter: Gerard Maas
It's currently not possible to provide a custom logging configuration for the
Mesos executors.
Upon startup of the executor JVM, it loads a default config file from the Spark
assembly, visible by this line in stderr:
> Using Spark's default log4j profile:
> org/apache/spark/log4j-defaults.properties
That line comes from Logging.scala [1] where a default config is loaded if none
is found in the classpath upon the startup of the Spark Mesos executor in the
Mesos sandbox. At that point in time, none of the application-specific
resources have been shipped yet, as the executor JVM is just starting up.
To load a custom configuration file we should have it already on the sandbox
before the executor JVM starts and add it to the classpath on the startup
command.
For the classpath customization, It looks like it should be possible to pass a
-Dlog4j.configuration property by using the 'spark.executor.extraClassPath'
that will be picked up at [2] and that should be added to the command that
starts the executor JVM, but the resource must be already on the host before we
can do that. Therefore we need some means of 'shipping' the log4j.configuration
file to the allocated executor.
This all boils down to the need of shipping extra files to the sandbox.
There's a workaround: open up the Spark assembly, replace the
log4j-default.properties and pack it up again. That would work, although kind
of rudimentary as people may use the same assembly for many jobs. Probably,
accessing the log4j API programmatically should also work (we didn't try that
yet)
[1]
https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/Logging.scala#L128
[2]
https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/scheduler/cluster/mesos/MesosSchedulerBackend.scala#L77
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