Description
The hive-site.xml shows, that the TestMiniSparkOnYarnCliDriver uses 2 cores, and 2 executor instances to run the queries. See: https://github.com/apache/hive/blob/master/data/conf/spark/yarn-client/hive-site.xml#L233
When reading the log files for the query tests, I see the following:
2017-08-08T07:41:03,315 INFO [0381325d-2c8c-46fb-ab51-423defaddd84 main] session.SparkSession: Spark cluster current has executors: 1, total cores: 2, memory per executor: 512M, memoryFraction: 0.4
When running the tests against a real cluster, I found that running an explain query for the first time I see 1 executor, but running it for the second time I see 2 executors.
Also setting some spark configuration on the cluster resets this behavior. For the first time I will see 1 executor, and for the second time I will see 2 executors again.