If you are starting your "my-app" on your local machine, that's where the driver is running.
[image: image.png] Hope this helps. <https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/cluster-overview.html> On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 4:13 AM Pat Ferrel <p...@occamsmachete.com> wrote: > I have researched this for a significant amount of time and find answers > that seem to be for a slightly different question than mine. > > The Spark 2.3.3 cluster is running fine. I see the GUI on “ > http://master-address:8080";, there are 2 idle workers, as configured. > > I have a Scala application that creates a context and starts execution of > a Job. I *do not use spark-submit*, I start the Job programmatically and > this is where many explanations forks from my question. > > In "my-app" I create a new SparkConf, with the following code (slightly > abbreviated): > > conf.setAppName(“my-job") > conf.setMaster(“spark://master-address:7077”) > conf.set(“deployMode”, “cluster”) > // other settings like driver and executor memory requests > // the driver and executor memory requests are for all mem on the > slaves, more than > // mem available on the launching machine with “my-app" > val jars = listJars(“/path/to/lib") > conf.setJars(jars) > … > > When I launch the job I see 2 executors running on the 2 workers/slaves. > Everything seems to run fine and sometimes completes successfully. Frequent > failures are the reason for this question. > > Where is the Driver running? I don’t see it in the GUI, I see 2 Executors > taking all cluster resources. With a Yarn cluster I would expect the > “Driver" to run on/in the Yarn Master but I am using the Spark Standalone > Master, where is the Drive part of the Job running? > > If is is running in the Master, we are in trouble because I start the > Master on one of my 2 Workers sharing resources with one of the Executors. > Executor mem + driver mem is > available mem on a Worker. I can change this > but need so understand where the Driver part of the Spark Job runs. Is it > in the Spark Master, or inside and Executor, or ??? > > The “Driver” creates and broadcasts some large data structures so the need > for an answer is more critical than with more typical tiny Drivers. > > Thanks for you help! > -- Cheers!
