Hi, I am experimenting with pyspark lately... Every now and then, I see this error bieng streamed to pyspark shell .. and most of the times.. the computation/operation completes.. and sometimes, it just gets stuck... My setup is 8 node cluster.. with loads of ram(256GB's) and space( TB's) per node. This enviornment is shared by general hadoop and hadoopy stuff..with recent spark addition...
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space at com.ning.compress.BufferRecycler.allocEncodingBuffer(BufferRecycler.java:59) at com.ning.compress.lzf.ChunkEncoder.<init>(ChunkEncoder.java:93) at com.ning.compress.lzf.impl.UnsafeChunkEncoder.<init>(UnsafeChunkEncoder.java:40) at com.ning.compress.lzf.impl.UnsafeChunkEncoderLE.<init>(UnsafeChunkEncoderLE.java:13) at com.ning.compress.lzf.impl.UnsafeChunkEncoders.createEncoder(UnsafeChunkEncoders.java:31) at com.ning.compress.lzf.util.ChunkEncoderFactory.optimalInstance(ChunkEncoderFactory.java:44) at com.ning.compress.lzf.LZFOutputStream.<init>(LZFOutputStream.java:61) at org.apache.spark.io.LZFCompressionCodec.compressedOutputStream(CompressionCodec.scala:60) at org.apache.spark.storage.BlockManager.wrapForCompression(BlockManager.scala:803) at org.apache.spark.storage.BlockManager$$anonfun$5.apply(BlockManager.scala:471) at org.apache.spark.storage.BlockManager$$anonfun$5.apply(BlockManager.scala:471) at org.apache.spark.storage.DiskBlockObjectWriter.open(BlockObjectWriter.scala:117) at org.apache.spark.storage.DiskBlockObjectWriter.write(BlockObjectWriter.scala:174) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.ShuffleMapTask$$anonfun$runTask$1.apply(ShuffleMapTask.scala:164) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.ShuffleMapTask$$anonfun$runTask$1.apply(ShuffleMapTask.scala:161) at scala.collection.Iterator$class.foreach(Iterator.scala:727) at scala.collection.AbstractIterator.foreach(Iterator.scala:1157) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.ShuffleMapTask.runTask(ShuffleMapTask.scala:161) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.ShuffleMapTask.runTask(ShuffleMapTask.scala:102) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.Task.run(Task.scala:53) at org.apache.spark.executor.Executor$TaskRunner$$anonfun$run$1.apply$mcV$sp(Executor.scala:213) at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkHadoopUtil.runAsUser(SparkHadoopUtil.scala:49) at org.apache.spark.executor.Executor$TaskRunner.run(Executor.scala:178) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744) Most of the settings in spark are default.. So i was wondering if maybe, there is some configuration that needs to happen? There is this one config I have addded to spark_env file SPARK_WORKER_MEMORY=20g Also, I see tons of these errors as well.. 14/02/26 14:33:17 INFO TaskSetManager: Loss was due to java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space [duplicate 1] 14/02/26 14:33:17 INFO TaskSetManager: Starting task 996.0:278 as TID 1792 on executor 9: node02 (PROCESS_LOCAL) 14/02/26 14:33:17 INFO TaskSetManager: Serialized task 996.0:278 as 4070 bytes in 0 ms 14/02/26 14:33:17 WARN TaskSetManager: Lost TID 1488 (task 996.0:184) 14/02/26 14:33:17 INFO TaskSetManager: Loss was due to java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space [duplicate 2] 14/02/26 14:33:17 INFO TaskSetManager: Starting task 996.0:247 as TID 1793 on executor 9: node02 (PROCESS_LOCAL) 14/02/26 14:33:17 INFO TaskSetManager: Serialized task 996.0:247 as 4070 bytes in 0 ms 14/02/26 14:33:17 WARN TaskSetManager: Lost TID 1484 (task 996.0:82) 14/02/26 14:33:17 INFO TaskSetManager: Loss was due to java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space [duplicate 3] 14/02/26 14:33:17 INFO TaskSetManager: Starting task 996.0:116 as TID 1794 on executor 9: node02 (PROCESS_LOCAL) 14/02/26 14:33:17 INFO TaskSetManager: Serialized task 996.0:116 as 4070 bytes in 1 ms 14/02/26 14:33:17 WARN TaskSetManager: Lost TID 1475 (task 996.0:157) 14/02/26 14:33:17 INFO TaskSetManager: Loss was due to java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space [duplicate 4] 14/02/26 14:33:17 INFO TaskSetManager: Starting task 996.0:98 as TID 1795 on executor 9: node02 (PROCESS_LOCAL) 14/02/26 14:33:17 INFO TaskSetManager: Serialized task 996.0:98 as 4070 bytes in 1 ms 14/02/26 14:33:17 WARN TaskSetManager: Lost TID 1492 (task 996.0:17) and then... 14/02/26 14:33:20 WARN TaskSetManager: Lost TID 1649 (task 996.0:115) 14/02/26 14:33:20 WARN TaskSetManager: Lost TID 1666 (task 996.0:32) 14/02/26 14:33:20 WARN TaskSetManager: Lost TID 1675 (task 996.0:160) 14/02/26 14:33:20 WARN TaskSetManager: Lost TID 1657 (task 996.0:349) 14/02/26 14:33:20 WARN TaskSetManager: Lost TID 1660 (task 996.0:141) 14/02/26 14:33:20 WARN TaskSetManager: Lost TID 1651 (task 996.0:55) 14/02/26 14:33:20 WARN TaskSetManager: Lost TID 1669 (task 996.0:126) 14/02/26 14:33:20 WARN TaskSetManager: Lost TID 1678 (task 996.0:173) 14/02/26 14:33:20 WARN TaskSetManager: Lost TID 1663 (task 996.0:128) 14/02/26 14:33:20 WARN TaskSetManager: Lost TID 1672 (task 996.0:28) 14/02/26 14:33:20 WARN TaskSetManager: Lost TID 1654 (task 996.0:96) 14/02/26 14:33:20 WARN TaskSetManager: Lost TID 1699 (task 996.0:294) 14/02/26 14:33:20 INFO DAGScheduler: Executor lost: 12 (epoch 16) 14/02/26 14:33:20 INFO BlockManagerMasterActor: Trying to remove executor 12 from BlockManagerMaster. 14/02/26 14:33:20 INFO BlockManagerMaster: Removed 12 successfully in removeExecutor 14/02/26 14:33:20 INFO Stage: Stage 996 is now unavailable on executor 12 (0/379, false) which looks like warnings.. The code I tried to run was: subs_count = complex_key.map( lambda x: (x[0],int(x[1])).reduceByKey(lambda a,b:a+b)) subs_count.take(20) Thanks -- Mohit "When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get it. There is no other secret of success." -Socrates