Github user tgravescs commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1180#issuecomment-49891554 Yarn doesn't necessarily tell you the type of error, or know for that matter. Your process can crash for many different reasons. Its just a much harder to do. This is simple and should handle most cases. Note that this is also what MapReduce does.
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