Github user aarondav commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1485#issuecomment-49499453 Does your patch fix this problem, or do your Executors just hang after you reach enough cores? This behavior should not be happening, even with an unlimited capacity cached tread pool.
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