You could try leaving all the configuration values to default and running
your application and see if you are still hitting the heap issue, If so try
adding a Swap space to the machines which will definitely help. Another way
would be to set the heap space manually (export _JAVA_OPTIONS="-Xmx5g")

Thanks
Best Regards

On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 12:45 AM, Shuai Zheng <szheng.c...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
>
>
> I am a bit confused on spark.storage.memoryFraction, this is used to set
> the area for RDD usage, will this RDD means only for cached and persisted
> RDD? So if my program has no cached RDD at all (means that I have no
> .cache() or .persist() call on any RDD), then I can set this
> spark.storage.memoryFraction to a very small number or even zero?
>
>
>
> I am writing a program which consume a lot of memory (broadcast value,
> runtime, etc). But I have no cached RDD, so should I just turn off this
> spark.storage.memoryFraction to 0 (which will help me to improve the
> performance)?
>
>
>
> And I have another issue on the broadcast, when I try to get a broadcast
> value, it throws me out of memory error, which part of memory should I
> allocate more (if I can’t increase my overall memory size).
>
>
>
> java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap spac
>
> e
>
>         at
> com.esotericsoftware.kryo.serializers.DefaultArraySerializers$DoubleA
>
> rraySerializer.read(DefaultArraySerializers.java:218)
>
>         at
> com.esotericsoftware.kryo.serializers.DefaultArraySerializers$DoubleA
>
> rraySerializer.read(DefaultArraySerializers.java:200)
>
>         at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.Kryo.readObjectOrNull(Kryo.java:699)
>
>         at
> com.esotericsoftware.kryo.serializers.FieldSerializer$ObjectField.rea
>
> d(FieldSerializer.java:611)
>
>         at
> com.esotericsoftware.kryo.serializers.FieldSerializer.read(FieldSeria
>
> lizer.java:221)
>
>         at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.Kryo.readObject(Kryo.java:648)
>
>         at
> com.esotericsoftware.kryo.serializers.FieldSerializer$ObjectField.rea
>
> d(FieldSerializer.java:605)
>
>         at
> com.esotericsoftware.kryo.serializers.FieldSerializer.read(FieldSeria
>
> lizer.java:221)
>
>         at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.Kryo.readClassAndObject(Kryo.java:729)
>
>         at
> org.apache.spark.serializer.KryoDeserializationStream.readObject(Kryo
>
> Serializer.scala:138)
>
>         at
> org.apache.spark.serializer.DeserializationStream$$anon$1.getNext(Ser
>
> ializer.scala:133)
>
>         at
> org.apache.spark.util.NextIterator.hasNext(NextIterator.scala:71)
>
>         at
> org.apache.spark.storage.MemoryStore.unrollSafely(MemoryStore.scala:2
>
> 48)
>
>         at
> org.apache.spark.storage.MemoryStore.putIterator(MemoryStore.scala:13
>
> 6)
>
>         at
> org.apache.spark.storage.BlockManager.doGetLocal(BlockManager.scala:5
>
> 49)
>
>         at
> org.apache.spark.storage.BlockManager.getLocal(BlockManager.scala:431
>
> )
>
>         at
> org.apache.spark.broadcast.TorrentBroadcast$$anonfun$readBroadcastBlo
>
> ck$1.apply(TorrentBroadcast.scala:167)
>
>         at org.apache.spark.util.Utils$.tryOrIOException(Utils.scala:1152)
>
>         at
> org.apache.spark.broadcast.TorrentBroadcast.readBroadcastBlock(Torren
>
> tBroadcast.scala:164)
>
>         at
> org.apache.spark.broadcast.TorrentBroadcast._value$lzycompute(Torrent
>
> Broadcast.scala:64)
>
>         at
> org.apache.spark.broadcast.TorrentBroadcast._value(TorrentBroadcast.s
>
> cala:64)
>
>         at
> org.apache.spark.broadcast.TorrentBroadcast.getValue(TorrentBroadcast
>
> .scala:87)
>
>
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Shuai
>

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