Hi Mohammed, thanks a lot for the reply. Ok, so from what I understand I cannot control the number of executors per worker in standalone cluster mode. Is that correct?
BR On 20 February 2015 at 17:46, Mohammed Guller <moham...@glassbeam.com> wrote: > SPARK_WORKER_MEMORY=8g > > Will allocate 8GB memory to Spark on each worker node. Nothing to do with > # of executors. > > > > > > Mohammed > > > > *From:* Yiannis Gkoufas [mailto:johngou...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Friday, February 20, 2015 4:55 AM > *To:* user@spark.apache.org > *Subject:* Setting the number of executors in standalone mode > > > > Hi there, > > > > I try to increase the number of executors per worker in the standalone > mode and I have failed to achieve that. > > I followed a bit the instructions of this thread: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26645293/spark-configuration-memory-instance-cores > > > > and did that: > > spark.executor.memory 1g > > SPARK_WORKER_MEMORY=8g > > > > hoping to get 8 executors per worker but its still 1. > > And the option num-executors is not available in the standalone mode. > > > > Thanks a lot! >