Spark data frame is not utilizing the workers - scala

I have a spark cluster with 3 worker nodes, when i try to load the csv file from hdfs it only utilizes the resources(cpu & memory) on the system where i load the csv via spark-shell (used master node)
Load dataframe
val df = spark.read.format("csv")
.option("header","true")
.load("hdfs://ipaddr:9000/user/smb_ram/2016_HDD.csv")
Do some operation on the dataframe
df.agg(sum("failure")).show
When i load csv system memory increases by 1.3 GB which is the hdfs file size & 100 % CPU usage. The workers were idling CPU near 0 % and no memory usage changes. Ideally i would expect all the heavy lifting to be done by worker which is not happening.

Set spark mode to cluster that should solve your problem. Looks like your job is running in Client mode.

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Read 1 GB file from ADLS in Databricks

I want to load a 1 GB csv file present in ADLS Gen2 from Databricks.
My cluster configuration is
Databricks Runtime:9.1 LTS(Spark 3.1.2, Scala 2.12)
Worker type : Standard 56 GB Memory 8 Core Min Worker 2 Max Worker 8
Driver node same as worker.
While loading the file to dataframe, I am getting error:
The spark driver has stopped unexpectedly and is restarting. Your notebook will automatically re atttached.
Earlier I was getting Java Heap Space issue
thats why I increased the Size of cluster to 56 GB but now also its not working.
Is there any other method to load the data to dataframe or some configuration change that will load the data
Are you loading the CSV using spark.read ?
Try always using spark in databricks and try to apply repartition when loading this data. Spark will not load it until you apply some action over this DF. so try to apply this before any other action. This may help spark to run operations in parallel:
df = df.repartition(64)

Spark: master local[*] is a lot slower than master local

I have an EC2 set up with r3.8xlarge (32 cores, 244G RAM).
In my Spark application, I am reading two csv files from S3 using Spark-CSV from DataBrick, each csv has about 5 millions rows. I am unionAll the two DataFrames and running a dropDuplicates on the combined DataFrame.
But when I have,
val conf = new SparkConf()
.setMaster("local[32]")
.setAppName("Raw Ingestion On Apache Spark")
.set("spark.sql.shuffle.partitions", "32")
Spark is slower than .setMaster("local")
Wouldn't it be faster with 32 cores?
Well spark is not a Windows operating system, that it would work at maximum possible capacity from the start, you need to tune it for your usage.
Right now you just bluntly said to spark start and process my stuff on one node with 32 cores. That is not what Spark is good for. It is a distributed system suppose to be run on multi-node cluster, that is where it works best.
Reason is simple, even if you are using 32 core, what about IO issue?
Because now you are using let's if it has run 30 executors, than that is 32 process reading from same disk.
You specified 32 core, what about executor memory?
Did both machine had same ram, where you were testing.
You have specified now specifically that you want 32 partitions, if data is very small that is alot of overhead. Ideally you shouldn't specify partition until you know specifically what you are doing, or you are doing repetitive task, and you know data is going to be exactly similar all time.
If you tune it correctly spark with 32 core will indeed work faster than "local" which is basically running on one core.

Spark write to parquet on hdfs

I have 3 nodes hadoop and spark installed. I would like to take data from rdbms into data frame and write this data into parquet on HDFS. "dfs.replication" value is 1 .
When i try this with following command i have seen all HDFS blocks are located on node which i executed spark-shell.
scala> xfact.write.parquet("hdfs://sparknode01.localdomain:9000/xfact")
Is this the intended behaviour or should all blocks be distributed across the cluster?
Thanks
Since you are writing your data to HDFS this does not depend on spark, but on HDFS. From Hadoop : Definitive Guide
Hadoop’s default strategy is to place the first replica on the same node as the client (for
clients running outside the cluster, a node is chosen at random, although the system
tries not to pick nodes that are too full or too busy).
So yes, this is the intended behaivour.
Just as #nik says, I do my work with multi cients and it done for me:
This is the python snippet:
columns = xfact.columns
test = sqlContext.createDataFrame(xfact.rdd.map(lambda a: a),columns)
test.write.mode('overwrite').parquet('hdfs://sparknode01.localdomain:9000/xfact')

spark.default.parallelism for Parallelize RDD defaults to 2 for spark submit

Spark standalone cluster with a master and 2 worker nodes 4 cpu core on each worker. Total 8 cores for all workers.
When running the following via spark-submit (spark.default.parallelism is not set)
val myRDD = sc.parallelize(1 to 100000)
println("Partititon size - " + myRDD.partitions.size)
val totl = myRDD.reduce((x, y) => x + y)
println("Sum - " + totl)
It returns value 2 for partition size.
When using spark-shell by connecting to spark standalone cluster the same code returns correct partition size 8.
What can be the reason ?
Thanks.
spark.default.parallelism defaults to the number of all cores on all machines. The parallelize api has no parent RDD to determine the number of partitions, so it uses the spark.default.parallelism.
When running spark-submit, you're probably running it locally. Try submitting your spark-submit with the same start up configs as you do the spark-shell.
Pulled this from the documentation:
spark.default.parallelism
For distributed shuffle operations like reduceByKey and join, the largest number of partitions in a parent RDD. For operations like parallelize with no parent RDDs, it depends on the cluster manager:
Local mode: number of cores on the local machine
Mesos fine grained mode: 8
Others: total number of cores on all executor nodes or 2, whichever is larger
Default number of partitions in RDDs returned by transformations like join, reduceByKey, and parallelize when not set by user.

Apache Spark: Driver (instead of just the Executors) tries to connect to Cassandra

I guess I'm not yet fully understanding how Spark works.
Here is my setup:
I'm running a Spark cluster in Standalone mode. I'm using 4 machines for this: One is the Master, the other three are Workers.
I have written an application that reads data from a Cassandra cluster (see https://github.com/journeymonitor/analyze/blob/master/spark/src/main/scala/SparkApp.scala#L118).
The 3-nodes Cassandra cluster runs on the same machines that also host the Spark Worker nodes. The Spark Master node does not run a Cassandra node:
Machine 1 Machine 2 Machine 3 Machine 4
Spark Master Spark Worker Spark Worker Spark Worker
Cassandra node Cassandra node Cassandra node
The reasoning behind this is that I want to optimize data locality - when running my Spark app on the cluster, each Worker only needs to talk to its local Cassandra node.
Now, when submitting my Spark app to the cluster by running spark-submit --deploy-mode client --master spark://machine-1 from Machine 1 (the Spark Master), I expect the following:
a Driver instance is started on the Spark Master
the Driver starts one Executor on each Spark Worker
the Driver distributes my application to each Executor
my application runs on each Executor, and from there, talks to Cassandra via 127.0.0.1:9042
However, this doesn't seem to be the case. Instead, the Spark Master tries to talk to Cassandra (and fails, because there is no Cassandra node on the Machine 1 host).
What is it that I misunderstand? Does it work differently? Does in fact the Driver read the data from Cassandra, and distribute the data to the Executors? But then I could never read data larger than memory of Machine 1, even if the total memory of my cluster is sufficient.
Or, does the Driver talk to Cassandra not to read data, but to find out how to partition the data, and instructs the Executors to read "their" part of the data?
If someone can enlight me, that would be much appreciated.
Driver program is responsible for creating SparkContext, SQLContext and scheduling tasks on the worker nodes. It includes creating logical and physical plans and applying optimizations. To be able to do that it has to have access to the data source schema and possible other informations like schema or different statistics. Implementation details vary from source to source but generally speaking it means that data should be accessible on all nodes including application master.
At the end of the day your expectations are almost correct. Chunks of the data are fetched individually on each worker without going through driver program, but driver has to be able to connect to Cassandra to fetch required metadata.