Yes, I forgot to mention I chose prime number as a modulo for hash function because my keys are usually strings and spark calculates particular partitiion using key hash(see HashPartitioner.scala) So, to avoid big number of collisions(when many keys located in few partition) it is common to use prime number in modulo. But it makes sense only for String keys offcourse, because of hash function. If yuo have different hash function for key of different type you can use any other modulo instead prime number. I like this discussion on this topic http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1145217/why-should-hash-functions-use-a-prime-number-modulus
-- Яндекс.Почта — надёжная почта http://mail.yandex.ru/neo2/collect/?exp=1&t=1 02.08.2015, 00:14, "Ruslan Dautkhanov" <dautkha...@gmail.com>: > You should also take into account amount of memory that you plan to use. > It's advised not to give too much memory for each executor .. otherwise GC > overhead will go up. > > Btw, why prime numbers? > > -- > Ruslan Dautkhanov > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 3:31 AM, ponkin <alexey.pon...@ya.ru> wrote: >> Hi Rahul, >> >> Where did you see such a recommendation? >> I personally define partitions with the following formula >> >> partitions = nextPrimeNumberAbove( K*(--num-executors * --executor-cores ) ) >> >> where >> nextPrimeNumberAbove(x) - prime number which is greater than x >> K - multiplicator to calculate start with 1 and encrease untill join >> perfomance start to degrade >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/Spark-Number-of-Partitions-Recommendations-tp24022p24059.html >> >> Sent from the Apache Spark User List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@spark.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@spark.apache.org
