[jira] [Created] (SPARK-21961) Filter out BlockStatuses Accumulators during replaying history logs in Spark History Server

["Ye Zhou (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Ye Zhou created SPARK-21961:
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             Summary: Filter out BlockStatuses Accumulators during replaying history logs in Spark History Server
                 Key: SPARK-21961
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-21961
             Project: Spark
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Spark Core
    Affects Versions: 2.2.0, 2.1.0
            Reporter: Ye Zhou


As described in SPARK-20923, TaskMetrics._updatedBlockStatuses uses a lot of memory in Driver. Recently we also noticed the same issue in Spark History Server. Even though in SPARK-20084, those event logs are getting removed from history log. But multiple versions of Spark including 1.6.x and 2.1.0 versions are deployed in our production cluster, none of them have these two patches included.
In this case, those event logs will still be in shown up in logs and Spark History Server will replay them. Spark History Server continuously get severe Full GCs even though we tried to limit cache size as well as enlarge the heapsize to 40GB. We also tried with different GC tuning parameters, like using CMS or G1GC. None of them works.
We made a heap dump, and found that the top memory consumer objects is BlockStatus. There was even one thread that took 24GB heap which was replaying one log file.
Since the former two tickets has resolved related issues in both driver and writing to history logs, we should also consider add this filter to Spark History Server in order to decrease the memory consumption for replaying one history log. For use cases like us, where we have multiple older versions of Spark deployed, this filter should be pretty useful.



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