[jira] [Commented] (SPARK-18761) Uncancellable / unkillable tasks may starve jobs of resoures

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Apache Spark commented on SPARK-18761:
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User 'JoshRosen' has created a pull request for this issue:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/16189

> Uncancellable / unkillable tasks may starve jobs of resoures
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SPARK-18761
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-18761
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Spark Core
>            Reporter: Josh Rosen
>            Assignee: Josh Rosen
>
> Spark's current task cancellation / task killing mechanism is "best effort" in the sense that some tasks may not be interruptible and may not respond to their "killed" flags being set. If a significant fraction of a cluster's task slots are occupied by tasks that have been marked as killed but remain running then this can lead to a situation where new jobs and tasks are starved of resources because zombie tasks are holding resources.
> I propose to address this problem by introducing a "task reaper" mechanism in executors to monitor tasks after they are marked for killing in order to periodically re-attempt the task kill, capture and log stacktraces / warnings if tasks do not exit in a timely manner, and, optionally, kill the entire executor JVM if cancelled tasks cannot be killed within some timeout.



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