Github user andrewor14 commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/7532#issuecomment-125106455 > from the code, I think what will happen if an application requests (call sc.requestTotalExecutors(x)) less resources than what it has been assigned is that it will not get more resources but still runs with the resources in hand, right? I don't understand your question. Are you asking what happens if I request more than what my cluster can support? Spark expects the cluster manager to eventually fulfill the request, so once space frees up the Master will launch executors that could not be launched before. > However...killExecutors is pretty hard to use, because I need to get the exact IDs of executors....can we bring a new API like killExecutors(numExectors: Int)? That is completely orthogonal to this patch. We can add that in a separate issue if there is demand for it.
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