[jira] [Created] (DRILL-5163) External sort on Mac creates a separate child process per spill via HDFS FS

["Paul Rogers (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Paul Rogers created DRILL-5163:
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             Summary: External sort on Mac creates a separate child process per spill via HDFS FS
                 Key: DRILL-5163
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-5163
             Project: Apache Drill
          Issue Type: Improvement
    Affects Versions: 1.8.0
            Reporter: Paul Rogers
            Priority: Minor


The external sort operator spills to disk. Spill files are created and written using the HDFS file system. For performance, HDFS uses native libraries to access the file system. These native libraries are not available on the Mac. As a result, some operations are implemented using a shower, Java-only path. One of these operations (need details) is implemented by forking a child process.

When run in a debugger on the Mac, the behavior shows up as the furious creation and deletion of threads to manage the child processes: one per spill. Because of this behavior, performance of external sort is slow. Of course, no production code uses Drill on a Mac, so this is more of a nuisance than a real bug, which is why it is marked as an improvement.



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