Nice write-up... very helpful!

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Smith [mailto:secs...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 1:11 PM
Cc: spark users
Subject: Re: Stable spark streaming app

I don't have anything in production yet but I now at least have a stable 
(running for more than 24 hours) streaming app. Earlier, the app would crash 
for all sorts of reasons. Caveats/setup:
- Spark 1.0.0 (I have no input flow control unlike Spark 1.1)
- Yarn for RM
- Input and Output to Kafka
- CDH 5.1
- 11 node cluster with 32-cores and 48G max container size for each node (Yarn 
managed)
- 5 partition Kafka topic - both in and out
- Roughly, an average of 25k messages per second
- App written in Scala (warning: I am a Scala noob)

Few things I had to add/tweak to get the app to be stable:
- The executor JVMs did not have any GC options set, by default. This might be 
more of a CDH issue. I noticed that while the Yarn container and other Spark 
ancillary tasks had GC options set at launch but none for the executors. So I 
played with different GC options and this worked best:
SPARK_JAVA_OPTS="-XX:MaxPermSize=512m -XX:NewSize=1024m -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC 
-XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=70
-XX:+AggressiveHeap -XX:MaxHeapFreeRatio=70 -verbosegc -XX:+PrintGCDetails"

I tried G1GC but for some reason it just didn't work. I am not a Java 
programmer or expert so my conclusion is purely trial and error based.
The GC logs, with these flags, go to the "stdout" file in the Yarn container 
logs on each node/worker. You can set SPARK_JAVA_OPTS in spark-env.sh on the 
driver node and Yarn will respect these. On CDH/CM specifically, even though 
you don't run Spark as a service (since you are using Yarn for RM), you can 
goto "Spark Client Advanced Configuration Snippet (Safety Valve) for 
spark-conf/spark-env.sh" and set SPARK_JAVA_OPTS there.

- Set these two params - "spark.yarn.executor.memoryOverhead"
"spark.yarn.driver.memoryOverhead". Earlier, my app would get killed because 
the executors running the kafka receivers would get killed by Yarn for over 
utilization of memory. Now, these are my memory settings (I will paste the 
entire app launch params later in the email):
--driver-memory 2G \
--executor-memory 16G \
--spark.yarn.executor.memoryOverhead 4096 \ --spark.yarn.driver.memoryOverhead 
1024 \

Your total executor JVM will consume "executor-memory" minus 
"spark.yarn.executor.memoryOverhead" so you should see each executor JVM 
consuming no more than 12G, in this case.

Here is how I launch my app:
run=`date +"%m-%d-%YT%T"`; \
nohup spark-submit --class myAwesomeApp \ --master yarn myawesomeapp.jar \ 
--jars 
spark-streaming-kafka_2.10-1.0.0.jar,kafka_2.10-0.8.1.1.jar,zkclient-0.3.jar,metrics-core-2.2.0.jar,json4s-jackson_2.10-3.2.10.jar
\
--driver-memory 2G \
--executor-memory 16G \
--executor-cores 16 \
--num-executors 10 \
--spark.serializer org.apache.spark.serializer.KryoSerializer \ 
--spark.rdd.compress true \ --spark.io.compression.codec 
org.apache.spark.io.SnappyCompressionCodec \ --spark.akka.threads 64 \ 
--spark.akka.frameSize 500 \ --spark.task.maxFailures 64 \ 
--spark.scheduler.mode FAIR \ --spark.yarn.executor.memoryOverhead 4096 \ 
--spark.yarn.driver.memoryOverhead 1024 \ --spark.shuffle.consolidateFiles true 
\ --spark.default.parallelism 528 \
>logs/normRunLog-$run.log \
2>logs/normRunLogError-$run.log & \
echo $! > logs/current-run.pid

Some code optimizations (or, goof ups that I fixed). I did not scientifically 
measure the impact of each but I think they helped:
- Made all my classes and objects serializable and then use Kryo (as you see 
above)
- I map one receive task for each kafka partition
- Instead of doing a "union" on all the incoming streams and then
repartition() I now repartition() each incoming stream and process them 
separately. I believe this reduces shuffle.
- Reduced number of repartitions. I was doing 128 after doing a "union" on all 
incoming dStreams. I now repartition each of the five streams separately (in a 
loop) to 24.
- For each RDD, I set storagelevel to "MEMORY_AND_DISK_SER"
- Process data per partition instead of per RDD: dataout.foreachRDD( rdd => 
rdd.foreachPartition(rec => { myFunc(rec) }) )
- Specific to kafka: when I create "new Producer", make sure I "close"
it else I had a ton of "too many files open" errors :)
- Use immutable objects as far as possible. If I use mutable objects within a 
method/class then I turn them into immutable before passing onto another 
class/method.
- For logging, create a LogService object that I then use for other 
object/class declarations. Once instantiated, I can make "logInfo"
calls from within other Objects/Methods/Classes and output goes to the "stderr" 
file in the Yarn container logs. Good for debugging stream processing logic.

Currently, my processing delay is lower than my dStream time window so all is 
good. I get a ton of these errors in my driver logs:
14/09/16 21:17:40 ERROR LiveListenerBus: Listener JobProgressListener threw an 
exception

These seem related to: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-2316

Best I understand and have been told, this does not affect data integrity but 
may cause un-necessary recomputes.

Hope this helps,

Tim


On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 8:30 AM, Soumitra Kumar <kumar.soumi...@gmail.com> 
wrote:
> Hmm, no response to this thread!
>
> Adding to it, please share experiences of building an enterprise grade 
> product based on Spark Streaming.
>
> I am exploring Spark Streaming for enterprise software and am cautiously 
> optimistic about it. I see huge potential to improve debuggability of Spark.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tim Smith" <secs...@gmail.com>
> To: "spark users" <user@spark.apache.org>
> Sent: Friday, September 12, 2014 10:09:53 AM
> Subject: Stable spark streaming app
>
> Hi,
>
> Anyone have a stable streaming app running in "production"? Can you 
> share some overview of the app and setup like number of nodes, events 
> per second, broad stream processing workflow, config highlights etc?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tim
>
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