GitHub user mateiz opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1707
SPARK-2711. Create a ShuffleMemoryManager to track memory for all spilling collections This tracks memory properly if there are multiple spilling collections in the same task (which was a problem before), and also implements an algorithm that lets each thread grow up to 1 / 2N of the memory pool (where N is the number of threads) before spilling, which avoids an inefficiency with small spills we had before (some threads would spill many times at 0-1 MB because the pool was allocated elsewhere). You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/mateiz/spark spark-2711 Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1707.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 #1707 ---- commit e40de34ce90aba130a268c7c2665ede1322414f4 Author: Matei Zaharia <ma...@databricks.com> Date: 2014-08-01T02:49:40Z Create central manager to track memory for all spilling collections This tracks memory properly if there are multiple spilling collections in the same task (which was a problem before), and also implements an algorithm that lets each thread grow up to 1 / 2N of the memory pool (where N is the number of threads) before spilling, which avoids an inefficiency with small spills we had before (some threads would spill many times at 0-1 MB because the pool was allocated elsewhere). ---- --- 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. ---