GitHub user sryza opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/663
YARN-1713. Use a thread pool for launching executors. This patch copies the approach used in the MapReduce application master for launching containers. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/sryza/spark sandy-spark-1713 Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/663.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #663 ---- commit fafc39d8f97cf355b4204f01fad94999bb7fc743 Author: Sandy Ryza <sa...@cloudera.com> Date: 2014-05-06T08:21:13Z YARN-1713. Use a thread pool for launching executors. ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---