Errors when using OFF_HEAP Storage with Spark 1.4.0 and Tachyon 0.6.4

Question

I am trying to persist my RDD using off heap storage on spark 1.4.0 and tachyon 0.6.4 doing it like this :

val a = sqlContext.parquetFile("a1.parquet")
a.persist(org.apache.spark.storage.StorageLevel.OFF_HEAP)
a.count()

Afterwards I am getting the following exception.

Any ideas on that?

15/06/16 10:14:53 INFO : Tachyon client (version 0.6.4) is trying to connect master @ localhost/127.0.0.1:19998
15/06/16 10:14:53 INFO : User registered at the master localhost/127.0.0.1:19998 got UserId 3
15/06/16 10:14:53 INFO TachyonBlockManager: Created tachyon directory at /tmp_spark_tachyon/spark-6b2512ab-7bb8-47ca-b6e2-8023d3d7f7dc/driver/spark-tachyon-20150616101453-ded3
15/06/16 10:14:53 INFO BlockManagerInfo: Added rdd_10_3 on ExternalBlockStore on localhost:33548 (size: 0.0 B)
15/06/16 10:14:53 INFO BlockManagerInfo: Added rdd_10_1 on ExternalBlockStore on localhost:33548 (size: 0.0 B)
15/06/16 10:14:53 ERROR TransportRequestHandler: Error while invoking RpcHandler#receive() on RPC id 5710423667942934352
org.apache.spark.storage.BlockNotFoundException: Block rdd_10_3 not found
    at org.apache.spark.storage.BlockManager.getBlockData(BlockManager.scala:306)
    at org.apache.spark.network.netty.NettyBlockRpcServer$$anonfun$2.apply(NettyBlockRpcServer.scala:57)
    at org.apache.spark.network.netty.NettyBlockRpcServer$$anonfun$2.apply(NettyBlockRpcServer.scala:57)
    at scala.collection.TraversableLike$$anonfun$map$1.apply(TraversableLike.scala:244)
    at scala.collection.TraversableLike$$anonfun$map$1.apply(TraversableLike.scala:244)
    at scala.collection.IndexedSeqOptimized$class.foreach(IndexedSeqOptimized.scala:33)
    at scala.collection.mutable.ArrayOps$ofRef.foreach(ArrayOps.scala:108)
    at scala.collection.TraversableLike$class.map(TraversableLike.scala:244)
    at scala.collection.mutable.ArrayOps$ofRef.map(ArrayOps.scala:108)
    at org.apache.spark.network.netty.NettyBlockRpcServer.receive(NettyBlockRpcServer.scala:57)
    at org.apache.spark.network.server.TransportRequestHandler.processRpcRequest(TransportRequestHandler.java:114)
    at org.apache.spark.network.server.TransportRequestHandler.handle(TransportRequestHandler.java:87)
    at org.apache.spark.network.server.TransportChannelHandler.channelRead0(TransportChannelHandler.java:101)
    at org.apache.spark.network.server.TransportChannelHandler.channelRead0(TransportChannelHandler.java:51)
    at io.netty.channel.SimpleChannelInboundHandler.channelRead(SimpleChannelInboundHandler.java:105)
    at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:333)
    at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.fireChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:319)
    at io.netty.handler.timeout.IdleStateHandler.channelRead(IdleStateHandler.java:254)
    at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:333)

I have also tried the same with the text file and I was able to persist it in tachyon. The problem is with persisting DataFrame originally read from parquet.

Answer 1

This error comes only for the Spark versions 1.4 but after the updation of Spark in Spark1.5+, you won’t get any such error with Tachyon.

Also, as your program is not clear and complete, I am guessing that in your program, if you use input.persist(OFF_HEAP), it means that the data would have two copies in Tachyon. One copy is the file itself in Tachyon, another copy in Tachyon is the OFF_HEAP store in Tachyon. Therefore, the input.persist() in your program is not recommended.

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