[jira] [Resolved] (DRILL-5025) ExternalSortBatch provides weak control over spill file size

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

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-5025?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Paul Rogers resolved DRILL-5025.
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    Resolution: Fixed

> ExternalSortBatch provides weak control over spill file size
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>                 Key: DRILL-5025
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-5025
>             Project: Apache Drill
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>    Affects Versions: 1.8.0
>            Reporter: Paul Rogers
>            Assignee: Paul Rogers
>            Priority: Minor
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> The ExternalSortBatch (ESB) operator sorts records while spilling to disk to control memory use. The size of the spill file is not easy to control. It is a function of the accumulated batches size (half of the accumulated total), which is determined by either the memory budget or the {{drill.exec.sort.external.group.size}} parameter. (But, even with the parameter, the actual file size is still half the accumulated batches.)
> The proposed solution is to provide an explicit parameter that sets the maximum spill file size: {{drill.exec.sort.external.spill.size}}. If the ESB needs to spill more than this amount of data, ESB should split the spill into multiple files.
> The spill.size should be in bytes (or MB). (A size in records makes the file size data-dependent, which would not be helpful.)



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