I believe you would be restricted by the number of cores you have in your cluster. Having a worker running without a core is useless.
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 3:04 PM, canan chen <ccn...@gmail.com> wrote: > In spark standalone mode, there will be one executor per worker. I am > wondering how many executor can I acquire when I submit app ? Is it greedy > mode (as many as I can acquire )? > -- [image: Sigmoid Analytics] <http://htmlsig.com/www.sigmoidanalytics.com> *Arush Kharbanda* || Technical Teamlead ar...@sigmoidanalytics.com || www.sigmoidanalytics.com