[SPARK-20443] The blockSize of MLLIB ALS should be setting by the User

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Incomplete
• Affects Version/s: 2.3.0
• Component/s: ML, MLlib
• Labels: bulk-closed
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Peng Meng
• Created: 24/Apr/17 06:16
• Updated: 08/Oct/19 05:41
• Resolved: 08/Oct/19 05:41

Description

The blockSize of MLLIB ALS is very important for ALS performance.
In our test, when the blockSize is 128, the performance is about 4X comparing with the blockSize is 4096 (default value).
The following are our test results:
BlockSize(recommendationForAll time)
128(124s), 256(160s), 512(184s), 1024(244s), 2048(332s), 4096(488s), 8192(OOM)

The Test Environment:
3 workers: each work 10 core, each work 30G memory, each work 1 executor.
The Data: User 480,000, and Item 17,000

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #17739 (mpjlu)