Github user srowen commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/14140#discussion_r70429952 --- Diff: mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/regression/IsotonicRegression.scala --- @@ -408,8 +409,12 @@ class IsotonicRegression private (private var isotonic: Boolean) extends Seriali */ private def parallelPoolAdjacentViolators( input: RDD[(Double, Double, Double)]): Array[(Double, Double, Double)] = { - val parallelStepResult = input - .sortBy(x => (x._2, x._1)) + val keyedInput = input --- End diff -- I think there may be shorter ways to write this with `groupBy`, but, this and other approaches like that have the big drawback of reading lots of data into memory. Here you have to sort the whole partition in memory (!). How about `repartitionAndSortWithinPartitions`? oddly specific method, but, likely just what you need here, to both partition according to some criteria but then end up with sorted partitions. It's more scalable.
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