[SPARK-5955] Add checkpointInterval to ALS

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.3.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.3.1, 1.4.0
• Component/s: ML, MLlib
• Target Version/s: 1.3.1, 1.4.0
• Assignee: Xiangrui Meng
• Reporter: Xiangrui Meng
• Created: 23/Feb/15 22:12
• Updated: 06/Jan/16 16:40
• Resolved: 20/Mar/15 19:03

Description

We should add checkpoint interval to ALS to prevent the following:

1. storing large shuffle files
2. stack overflow (SPARK-1106)

Issue Links

• contains: SPARK-6334 spark-local dir not getting cleared during ALS
• contains: SPARK-1006 MLlib ALS gets stack overflow with too many iterations
• is related to: SPARK-5561 Generalize PeriodicGraphCheckpointer for RDDs
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #5076 (mengxr)