Github user aarondav commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1485#issuecomment-49494194 The tasks launched on an Executor are controlled by the DAGScheduler, and should not exceed the number of cores that executor is advertising. In what situation have you seen this happening?
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