Github user nishkamravi2 commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1391#issuecomment-49348179 Bringing the discussion back online. Thanks for all the input so far. Ran a few experiments yday and today. Number of executors (which was the other main handle we wanted to factor in) doesn't seem to have any noticeable impact. Tried a few other parameters such as num_partitions, default_parallelism but nothing sticks. Confirmed the proportionality with container size. Have also been trying to tune the multiplier to minimize potential waste and I think 6% (as opposed to 7% as we currently have) is the lowest we should go. Modifying the PR accordingly.
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