My submissions of Spark on YARN (CDH 5.2) resulted in a few thousand steps. If I was running this on standalone cluster mode the query finished in 55s but on YARN, the query was still running 30min later. Would the hard coded sleeps potentially be in play here? On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 11:23 Sandy Ryza <sandy.r...@cloudera.com> wrote:
> Hi Tobias, > > What version are you using? In some recent versions, we had a couple of > large hardcoded sleeps on the Spark side. > > -Sandy > > On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Andrew Or <and...@databricks.com> wrote: > >> Hey Tobias, >> >> As you suspect, the reason why it's slow is because the resource manager >> in YARN takes a while to grant resources. This is because YARN needs to >> first set up the application master container, and then this AM needs to >> request more containers for Spark executors. I think this accounts for most >> of the overhead. The remaining source probably comes from how our own YARN >> integration code polls application (every second) and cluster resource >> states (every 5 seconds IIRC). I haven't explored in detail whether there >> are optimizations there that can speed this up, but I believe most of the >> overhead comes from YARN itself. >> >> In other words, no I don't know of any quick fix on your end that you can >> do to speed this up. >> >> -Andrew >> >> >> 2014-12-03 20:10 GMT-08:00 Tobias Pfeiffer <t...@preferred.jp>: >> >> Hi, >>> >>> I am using spark-submit to submit my application to YARN in >>> "yarn-cluster" mode. I have both the Spark assembly jar file as well as my >>> application jar file put in HDFS and can see from the logging output that >>> both files are used from there. However, it still takes about 10 seconds >>> for my application's yarnAppState to switch from ACCEPTED to RUNNING. >>> >>> I am aware that this is probably not a Spark issue, but some YARN >>> configuration setting (or YARN-inherent slowness), I was just wondering if >>> anyone has an advice for how to speed this up. >>> >>> Thanks >>> Tobias >>> >> >> >
