Looking at the code a bit more, it appears that blacklisting is disabled by
default. To enable it, set spark.blacklist.enabled=true.
The updates in 2.1.0 appear to provide much more fine-grained settings for
this, like the number of tasks that can fail before an executor is
blacklisted for a
I am seeing a strange issue. I had a bad behaving slave that failed the
entire job. I have set spark.task.maxFailures to 8 for my job. Seems like
all task retries happen on the same slave in case of failure. My
expectation was that task will be retried on different slave in case of
failure, and
