[jira] [Commented] (SPARK-14974) spark sql job create too many files in HDFS when doing insert overwrite hive table

["Kevin Zhang (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Kevin Zhang commented on SPARK-14974:
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I encountered the same problem with [~ussraf] in spark 2.2 and 2.3, and I'm not quite sure about how to fix it. Is there any plan to reopen the issue?

> spark sql job create too many files in HDFS when doing insert overwrite hive table
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>                 Key: SPARK-14974
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-14974
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: SQL
>    Affects Versions: 1.5.2
>            Reporter: zenglinxi
>            Priority: Minor
>
> Recently, we often encounter problems using spark sql for inserting data into a partition table (ex.: insert overwrite table $output_table partition(dt) select xxx from tmp_table).  
> After the spark job start running on yarn, the app will create too many files (ex. 2,000,000, or even 10,000,000), which will make HDFS under enormous pressure.
> We found that the num of files created by spark job is depending on the partition num of hive table that will be inserted and the num of spark sql partitions. 
> files_num = hive_table_partions_num *  spark_sql_partitions_num.
> We often make the spark_sql_partitions_num(spark.sql.shuffle.partitions) >= 1000, and the hive_table_partions_num is very small under normal circumstances, but it will turn out to be more than 2000 when we input a wrong field as the partion field unconsciously, which will make the files_num >= 1000 * 2000 = 2,000,000.
> There is a configuration parameter in hive that can limit the maximum number of dynamic partitions allowed to be created in each mapper/reducer named hive.exec.max.dynamic.partitions.pernode, but this conf parameter did't work when we use hiveContext.
> Reducing spark_sql_partitions_num(spark.sql.shuffle.partitions) can make the files_num be smaller, but it will affect the concurrency.
> Can we create configuration parameters to  limit the maximum number of files allowed to be create by each task or limit the spark_sql_partitions_num without affect the concurrency?



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