Github user lianhuiwang commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1180#issuecomment-49886521 @tgravescs i think if yarn will give application more executors, application will continue work and it donot need maxNumExecutorFailures. i think maxNumExecutorFailures will be killed application when yarn cannot give application more executors at a time. so at this case minNumExecutors can achieve our desired.
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