[jira] [Created] (SPARK-4550) In sort-based shuffle, store map outputs as serialized

["Sandy Ryza (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Sandy Ryza created SPARK-4550:
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             Summary: In sort-based shuffle, store map outputs as serialized
                 Key: SPARK-4550
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-4550
             Project: Spark
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Shuffle, Spark Core
    Affects Versions: 1.2.0
            Reporter: Sandy Ryza


One drawback with sort-based shuffle compared to hash-based shuffle is that it ends up storing many more java objects in memory.  If Spark could store map outputs in serialized form, it could
* spill less often because the serialized form is more compact
* reduce GC pressure

This will only work when the serialized representations of objects are independent from each other and occupy contiguous segments of memory.  E.g. when Kryo reference tracking is left on, objects may contain pointers to objects farther back in the stream, which means that the sort can't relocate objects without corrupting them.



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