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Frank Kane's Taming Big Data with Apache Spark and Python
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Frank Kane's Taming Big Data with Apache Spark and Python

by Frank Kane
June 2017
Beginner to intermediate
296 pages
7h 4m
English
Packt Publishing
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Troubleshooting Spark on a cluster

So let's start talking about what we do when things go wrong with our Spark job. It has a web-based console that we can look at in some circumstances, so let's start by talking about that.

Troubleshooting Spark jobs on a cluster is a bit of a dark art. If it's not immediately obvious what is going on from the output of the Spark driver script, a lot of times what you end up doing is throwing more machines at it and throwing more memory at it, like we looked at with the executor memory option. But if you're running on your own cluster or one that you have within your own network, Spark does offer a console UI that runs by default on port 4040. It does give you a little bit more of a graphical, in-depth look ...

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