GitHub user YanTangZhai opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1618
[SPARK-2715] ExternalAppendOnlyMap adds max limit of times and max limit of disk bytes written for spilling ExternalAppendOnlyMap adds max limit of times and max limit of disk bytes written for spilling. Therefore, some task could be let fail fast instead of running for a long time if it has data skew. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/YanTangZhai/spark SPARK-2715 Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1618.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #1618 ---- commit 3fc60119e9dee8d2a781316ade17812b1367849b Author: yantangzhai <tyz0...@163.com> Date: 2014-07-28T14:22:38Z [SPARK-2715] ExternalAppendOnlyMap adds max limit of times and max limit of disk bytes written for spilling ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---