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  1. Spark
  2. SPARK-14363

Executor OOM due to a memory leak in Sorter

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    • Bug
    • Status: Resolved
    • Major
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 1.6.1
    • 1.6.2, 2.0.0
    • Shuffle, Spark Core
    • None

    Description

      While running a Spark job, we see that the job fails because of executor OOM with following stack trace -

      java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Unable to acquire 76 bytes of memory, got 0
      	at org.apache.spark.memory.MemoryConsumer.allocatePage(MemoryConsumer.java:120)
      	at org.apache.spark.util.collection.unsafe.sort.UnsafeExternalSorter.acquireNewPageIfNecessary(UnsafeExternalSorter.java:326)
      	at org.apache.spark.util.collection.unsafe.sort.UnsafeExternalSorter.insertRecord(UnsafeExternalSorter.java:341)
      	at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.UnsafeExternalRowSorter.insertRow(UnsafeExternalRowSorter.java:91)
      	at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.UnsafeExternalRowSorter.sort(UnsafeExternalRowSorter.java:168)
      	at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.Sort$$anonfun$1.apply(Sort.scala:90)
      	at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.Sort$$anonfun$1.apply(Sort.scala:64)
      	at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD$$anonfun$mapPartitionsInternal$1$$anonfun$apply$21.apply(RDD.scala:728)
      	at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD$$anonfun$mapPartitionsInternal$1$$anonfun$apply$21.apply(RDD.scala:728)
      	at org.apache.spark.rdd.MapPartitionsRDD.compute(MapPartitionsRDD.scala:38)
      	at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.computeOrReadCheckpoint(RDD.scala:306)
      	at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.iterator(RDD.scala:270)
      	at org.apache.spark.rdd.MapPartitionsRDD.compute(MapPartitionsRDD.scala:38)
      	at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.computeOrReadCheckpoint(RDD.scala:306)
      	at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.iterator(RDD.scala:270)
      	at org.apache.spark.rdd.MapPartitionsRDD.compute(MapPartitionsRDD.scala:38)
      	at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.computeOrReadCheckpoint(RDD.scala:306)
      	at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.iterator(RDD.scala:270)
      	at org.apache.spark.rdd.MapPartitionsRDD.compute(MapPartitionsRDD.scala:38)
      	at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.computeOrReadCheckpoint(RDD.scala:306)
      	at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.iterator(RDD.scala:270)
      	at org.apache.spark.rdd.MapPartitionsRDD.compute(MapPartitionsRDD.scala:38)
      	at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.computeOrReadCheckpoint(RDD.scala:306)
      	at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.iterator(RDD.scala:270)
      	at org.apache.spark.scheduler.ResultTask.runTask(ResultTask.scala:66)
      	at org.apache.spark.scheduler.Task.run(Task.scala:89)
      	at org.apache.spark.executor.Executor$TaskRunner.run(Executor.scala:214)
      	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
      	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
      	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
      
      

      The issue is that there is a memory leak in the Sorter. When the UnsafeExternalSorter spills the data to disk, it does not free up the underlying pointer array. As a result, we see a lot of executor OOM and also memory under utilization.

      This is a regression partially introduced in PR https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/9241

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              sitalkedia@gmail.com Sital Kedia
              sitalkedia@gmail.com Sital Kedia
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