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Writing many small files runs up significant metadata overhead, and Spark handles that pattern badly; distributed filesystems such as HDFS handle it badly too, which is why it earned the name &quot;small file problem&quot;<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn1" id="fnref1">[1]</a></sup>. The same trap shows up on the read side. Push <code>spark.sql.files.maxPartitionBytes</code> (default 128 MB, aligned to the <a href="./data-formats.html">Parquet</a> block size) too low and Spark carves the input into many small partition files, piling on disk I/O and the filesystem overhead of opening, closing, and listing directories, all of which are slow on a distributed store<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn2" id="fnref2">[2]</a></sup><sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn3" id="fnref3">[3]</a></sup>.</p><p>Spark writes one file per output partition, so a job left with 200 partitions writes 200 files and one left with 3000 writes 3000, even when many of those files hold only a handful of rows. That count then punishes every downstream job forced to read thousands of tiny files<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn4" id="fnref4">[4]</a></sup>. The opposite extreme is not free either: files that are too large make it inefficient to read a whole block when you only need a few rows<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn5" id="fnref5">[5]</a></sup>.</p><h2 id="how-it-s-detected" tabindex="-1">How it&#39;s detected <a class="header-anchor" href="#how-it-s-detected" aria-label="Permalink to &quot;How it&#39;s detected&quot;"></a></h2><p>Reading the SQL plan surfaces write paths that will emit far more output files than the data warrants, keying off the one-file-per-output-partition rule<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn4" id="fnref4:1">[4:1]</a></sup>. The signal is a high output-partition count against a modest data volume, which foreshadows a directory full of tiny files.</p><table tabindex="0"><thead><tr><th>Signal</th><th>What it points to</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Output partition count high vs. data volume</td><td>Many tiny files on write</td></tr><tr><td>Read partitioning below <code>spark.sql.files.maxPartitionBytes</code> (128 MB)</td><td>Over-split input, excess filesystem I/O<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn2" id="fnref2:1">[2:1]</a></sup><sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn3" id="fnref3:1">[3:1]</a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table><h2 id="why-it-matters" tabindex="-1">Why it matters <a class="header-anchor" href="#why-it-matters" aria-label="Permalink to &quot;Why it matters&quot;"></a></h2><p>Every extra file is another open, close, and directory-list operation, and on a distributed filesystem those are not cheap<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn2" id="fnref2:2">[2:2]</a></sup>. The count compounds downstream: a stage that scatters 3000 tiny files hands the next job 3000 files to read back, so the metadata tax is paid twice over<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn4" id="fnref4:2">[4:2]</a></sup>. None of it is a single dramatic failure. The waste is spread thin across the file count, which is exactly why it goes unnoticed until listing and I/O start to dominate.</p><h2 id="how-to-fix-it" tabindex="-1">How to fix it <a class="header-anchor" href="#how-to-fix-it" aria-label="Permalink to &quot;How to fix it&quot;"></a></h2><p>Repartition right before the write so the output lands in fewer, better-sized files.</p><ul><li><code>coalesce()</code> is a shuffle-free merge: it fuses existing partitions with no data movement, so <code>df.coalesce(100).write.parquet(...)</code> collapses 3000 tiny files into 100 reasonable ones<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn4" id="fnref4:3">[4:3]</a></sup>. It does not rebalance, though, so uneven inputs stay uneven once lumped together, and pushing it to <code>coalesce(1)</code> kills parallelism by forcing one executor to do all the work<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn4" id="fnref4:4">[4:4]</a></sup>.</li><li><code>repartition()</code> is a full reshuffle that buys even distribution at the cost of that <a href="./shuffle.html">shuffle</a>. Reach for it when the distribution itself needs fixing, not just the file count<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn4" id="fnref4:5">[4:5]</a></sup>.</li></ul><blockquote><p><strong>PySpark:</strong> both are one-line calls on a DataFrame: <code>df.coalesce(100)</code> for a shuffle-free merge, or <code>df.repartition(100)</code> when the data also needs rebalancing.</p></blockquote><div class="language-python vp-adaptive-theme"><button title="Copy Code" class="copy"></button><span class="lang">python</span><pre class="shiki shiki-themes github-light github-dark vp-code" tabindex="0"><code><span class="line"><span style="--shiki-light:#6A737D;--shiki-dark:#6A737D;"># Collapse many tiny output files without a shuffle (distribution already even)</span></span>
+<span class="line"><span style="--shiki-light:#24292E;--shiki-dark:#E1E4E8;">df.coalesce(</span><span style="--shiki-light:#005CC5;--shiki-dark:#79B8FF;">100</span><span style="--shiki-light:#24292E;--shiki-dark:#E1E4E8;">).write.parquet(path)</span></span>
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+<span class="line"><span style="--shiki-light:#6A737D;--shiki-dark:#6A737D;"># Full reshuffle to a target count when the distribution itself needs fixing</span></span>
+<span class="line"><span style="--shiki-light:#24292E;--shiki-dark:#E1E4E8;">df.repartition(</span><span style="--shiki-light:#005CC5;--shiki-dark:#79B8FF;">100</span><span style="--shiki-light:#24292E;--shiki-dark:#E1E4E8;">).write.parquet(path)</span></span></code></pre></div><p>For runtime control, <a href="./aqe.html">Adaptive Query Execution</a> can merge tiny shuffle partitions on its own. With <code>spark.sql.adaptive.enabled</code> and <code>spark.sql.adaptive.coalescePartitions.enabled</code> (default true) set, AQE coalesces contiguous shuffle partitions toward <code>spark.sql.adaptive.advisoryPartitionSizeInBytes</code> (default 64 MB)<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn4" id="fnref4:6">[4:6]</a></sup><sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn5" id="fnref5:1">[5:1]</a></sup>. Just mind the scope: AQE only engages after the first shuffle, so it fixes shuffle-output partition counts but will not repair input-side partitioning or a bad file layout on disk<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn6" id="fnref6">[6]</a></sup>.</p><h2 id="confidence" tabindex="-1">Confidence <a class="header-anchor" href="#confidence" aria-label="Permalink to &quot;Confidence&quot;"></a></h2><p>The core inference, that one output file per partition times a high partition count yields many tiny files, is grounded directly in Spark&#39;s write behavior<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn4" id="fnref4:7">[4:7]</a></sup>, and the mitigation levers (<code>coalesce()</code>, <code>repartition()</code>, and AQE coalescing) are documented Spark features<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn4" id="fnref4:8">[4:8]</a></sup><sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn5" id="fnref5:2">[5:2]</a></sup>.</p><h2 id="limitations-false-positive-risk" tabindex="-1">Limitations / false-positive risk <a class="header-anchor" href="#limitations-false-positive-risk" aria-label="Permalink to &quot;Limitations / false-positive risk&quot;"></a></h2><p>A high file count can be perfectly legitimate: partitioned output deliberately fans data across many files by partition column, so a large count there is by design, not a defect. And AQE coalescing is not a cure-all here, since it only affects post-shuffle partitions and leaves the input file layout untouched<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn6" id="fnref6:1">[6:1]</a></sup>. The signal reflects the shape, not intent, so confirm the write is not an intended partitioned layout before acting.</p><h2 id="related" tabindex="-1">Related <a class="header-anchor" href="#related" aria-label="Permalink to &quot;Related&quot;"></a></h2><ul><li><strong>Partition sizing:</strong> <a href="./partitioning.html">Partitioning</a></li><li><strong>Too many small tasks:</strong> <a href="./bottleneck-tiny-tasks.html">Tiny Tasks</a></li></ul><hr class="footnotes-sep"><section class="footnotes"><ol class="footnotes-list"><li id="fn1" class="footnote-item"><p><em>Spark: The Definitive Guide</em>, Chambers &amp; Zaharia, ch. 19 <a href="#fnref1" class="footnote-backref">↩︎</a></p></li><li id="fn2" class="footnote-item"><p><em>Learning Spark, 2nd Edition</em>, Damji, Wenig, Das, Lee, ch. 7 <a href="#fnref2" class="footnote-backref">↩︎</a> <a href="#fnref2:1" class="footnote-backref">↩︎</a> <a href="#fnref2:2" class="footnote-backref">↩︎</a></p></li><li id="fn3" class="footnote-item"><p><a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/spark/v3.5.0/sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/internal/SQLConf.scala" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">SQLConf.scala</a> <a href="#fnref3" class="footnote-backref">↩︎</a> <a href="#fnref3:1" class="footnote-backref">↩︎</a></p></li><li id="fn4" class="footnote-item"><p><a href="https://luminousmen.com/post/spark-partitions" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Spark Partitions</a> <a href="#fnref4" class="footnote-backref">↩︎</a> <a href="#fnref4:1" class="footnote-backref">↩︎</a> <a href="#fnref4:2" class="footnote-backref">↩︎</a> <a href="#fnref4:3" class="footnote-backref">↩︎</a> <a href="#fnref4:4" class="footnote-backref">↩︎</a> <a href="#fnref4:5" class="footnote-backref">↩︎</a> <a href="#fnref4:6" class="footnote-backref">↩︎</a> <a href="#fnref4:7" class="footnote-backref">↩︎</a> <a href="#fnref4:8" class="footnote-backref">↩︎</a></p></li><li id="fn5" class="footnote-item"><p><a href="https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-performance-tuning.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Performance Tuning (Spark SQL, DataFrames and Datasets Guide)</a> <a href="#fnref5" class="footnote-backref">↩︎</a> <a href="#fnref5:1" class="footnote-backref">↩︎</a> <a href="#fnref5:2" class="footnote-backref">↩︎</a></p></li><li id="fn6" class="footnote-item"><p><a href="https://luminousmen.com/post/the-apache-spark-optimization-checklist" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">The Apache Spark Optimization Checklist</a> <a href="#fnref6" class="footnote-backref">↩︎</a> <a href="#fnref6:1" class="footnote-backref">↩︎</a></p></li></ol></section></div></div></main><footer class="VPDocFooter" data-v-39a288b8 data-v-e257564d><!--[--><!--]--><!----><nav class="prev-next" aria-labelledby="doc-footer-aria-label" data-v-e257564d><span class="visually-hidden" id="doc-footer-aria-label" data-v-e257564d>Pager</span><div class="pager" data-v-e257564d><a class="VPLink link pager-link prev" href="../tuning-reference/bottleneck-duplicate-plan-subtree.html" data-v-e257564d><!--[--><span class="desc" data-v-e257564d>Previous page</span><span class="title" data-v-e257564d>Duplicate Plan Subtree</span><!--]--></a></div><div class="pager" data-v-e257564d><a class="VPLink link pager-link next" href="../tuning-reference/bottleneck-broadcast-sizing.html" data-v-e257564d><!--[--><span class="desc" data-v-e257564d>Next page</span><span class="title" data-v-e257564d>Broadcast Sizing</span><!--]--></a></div></nav></footer><!--[--><!--]--></div></div></div><!--[--><!--]--></div></div><!----><!--[--><!--]--></div></div>
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data-v-39a288b8><div class="content-container" data-v-39a288b8><!--[--><!--]--><main class="main" data-v-39a288b8><div style="position:relative;" class="vp-doc _docs_tuning-reference_bottleneck-spill" data-v-39a288b8><div><h1 id="bottleneck-spill" tabindex="-1">Memory / Disk Spill <a class="header-anchor" href="#bottleneck-spill" aria-label="Permalink to &quot;Memory / Disk Spill {#bottleneck-spill}&quot;"></a></h1><p><span class="tag">SPILL</span></p><h2 id="what-it-is" tabindex="-1">What it is <a class="header-anchor" href="#what-it-is" aria-label="Permalink to &quot;What it is&quot;"></a></h2><p>Spill happens when a task&#39;s share of execution memory runs out during a sort or hash aggregation. Each task gets its own <code>TaskMemoryManager</code>, which arbitrates the shared execution pool across every task running concurrently on an executor; with <code>n</code> tasks running concurrently, each is allowed to allocate somewhere between <code>1/(2n)</code> and <code>1/n</code> of total execution memory: a soft limit, not a hard stop.<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn1" id="fnref1">[1]</a></sup> When a task&#39;s sort or hash-aggregation operator keeps requesting execution-memory pages it can&#39;t get, Spark doesn&#39;t fail immediately: it blocks the requesting task, triggers a spill of that task&#39;s in-memory data structure to disk, or, in the worst case, throws an <code>OutOfMemoryError</code>.<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn1" id="fnref1:1">[1:1]</a></sup></p><p>The spill path runs through Spark&#39;s map/shuffle I/O machinery: shuffle partitions created by wide transformations like <code>groupBy()</code> or <code>join()</code> spill to the executors&#39; local disks, at the location set by <code>spark.local.directory</code>.<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn2" id="fnref2">[2]</a></sup> SQL physical operators apply the same idea with their own guardrails: <code>SortMergeJoinExec</code>&#39;s in-memory buffer and the cartesian-product operator&#39;s buffer both spill once they cross a configured row-count threshold, which by default is <code>spark.shuffle.spill.numElementsForceSpillThreshold</code>.<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn3" id="fnref3">[3]</a></sup> Whatever the trigger, the resulting spilled bytes are exposed on the task metrics as <code>memoryBytesSpilled</code>, visible in the Spark UI and event log.<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn4" id="fnref4">[4]</a></sup></p><h2 id="how-it-s-detected" tabindex="-1">How it&#39;s detected <a class="header-anchor" href="#how-it-s-detected" aria-label="Permalink to &quot;How it&#39;s detected&quot;"></a></h2><p>Detection: any <code>memoryBytesSpilled &gt; 0</code> → Warning. The classification is the actionable signal.</p><p>Spill classification:</p><ul><li><code>skew</code>: ≥ 80% of tasks have zero spill; fix: address <a href="./bottleneck-skew.html">task skew</a>, not memory.</li><li><code>volume</code>: &lt; 20% of tasks have zero spill; fix: more partitions or more memory.</li><li><code>unclassified</code>: neither condition; treat as volume.</li></ul><img class="light-only" src="../assets/spill-classification.BU2euYDO.svg" alt="How a nonzero memoryBytesSpilled is classified as skew, volume, or unclassified from the share of tasks with zero spill, and the fix each classification points to."><img class="dark-only" src="../assets/spill-classification.dark.D7i1M40d.svg" alt="How a nonzero memoryBytesSpilled is classified as skew, volume, or unclassified from the share of tasks with zero spill, and the fix each classification points to."><h2 id="why-it-matters" tabindex="-1">Why it matters <a class="header-anchor" href="#why-it-matters" aria-label="Permalink to &quot;Why it matters&quot;"></a></h2><p>Spill is the fallback Spark reaches for once a task can no longer get the execution memory it&#39;s asking for: rather than failing outright, it blocks the task, writes its buffered data to disk, or (if that&#39;s not enough) throws an <code>OutOfMemoryError</code>.<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn1" id="fnref1:2">[1:2]</a></sup> A task that&#39;s spilling has already given up pure in-memory speed to keep running at all, which is why the skew-vs-volume split above is the actionable part of the signal: the two failure shapes call for opposite fixes.</p><h2 id="how-to-fix-it" tabindex="-1">How to fix it <a class="header-anchor" href="#how-to-fix-it" aria-label="Permalink to &quot;How to fix it&quot;"></a></h2><ul><li><strong>Skew</strong>: When only a few tasks spill, the problem is the shape of the data, not the size of the memory pool. <code>repartition()</code> is the tool for this: reach for it specifically to fix a lopsided partition distribution or to increase partition count<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn5" id="fnref5">[5]</a></sup>, in contrast to <code>coalesce()</code>, which never rebalances skewed data because it just stacks existing partitions together: partitions that were uneven going in are still uneven coming out.<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn6" id="fnref6">[6]</a></sup> For skewed joins, <a href="./aqe.html">Adaptive Query Execution</a> can detect and split<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn7" id="fnref7">[7]</a></sup> oversized partitions automatically: a partition counts as skewed once it&#39;s larger than <code>spark.sql.adaptive.skewJoin.skewedPartitionFactor</code> (default <code>5.0</code>) times the median partition size, and also larger than <code>spark.sql.adaptive.skewJoin.skewedPartitionThresholdInBytes</code> (default <code>256 MB</code>).<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn8" id="fnref8">[8]</a></sup><sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn9" id="fnref9">[9]</a></sup> Before AQE existed, the manual equivalent was salting: adding a prefix to the skewed keys to make the same key look different, then adjusting the data distribution accordingly.<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn7" id="fnref7:1">[7:1]</a></sup> Databricks&#39; <code>/*+ SKEW(...) */</code> hint lets you name the skewed relation and specific key values directly, so the planner targets just those keys instead of relying on automatic detection.<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn10" id="fnref10">[10]</a></sup></li><li><strong>Volume</strong>: When most tasks spill, the fix is more room to work with: more partitions, more memory, or both. <code>repartition(n)</code> guarantees exactly <code>n</code> output partitions via a hash shuffle<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn11" id="fnref11">[11]</a></sup>, and since Spark&#39;s per-task startup overhead is low (unlike MapReduce&#39;s), the general bias is to err toward more partitions rather than fewer.<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn12" id="fnref12">[12]</a></sup><code>spark.sql.files.maxPartitionBytes</code> (default <code>128 MB</code>) is the equivalent lever on the input side, governing how much file data gets packed into each input partition before a shuffle even happens.<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn6" id="fnref6:1">[6:1]</a></sup> On the memory side, execution memory is a fraction of the JVM heap. <code>spark.memory.fraction</code> (default <code>0.6</code>) sizes the shared execution/storage region as <code>(JVM heap − 300 MiB) × spark.memory.fraction</code><sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn13" id="fnref13">[13]</a></sup>. Because each task&#39;s slice of that region is capped by the <code>TaskMemoryManager</code> at between <code>1/(2n)</code> and <code>1/n</code> of the total,<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn1" id="fnref1:3">[1:3]</a></sup> giving executors more memory, or running fewer concurrent tasks on each one, directly raises the ceiling before spill kicks in.</li></ul><p>For the <strong>volume</strong> case, give tasks more room: defaults shown, comments say which way to move:</p><div class="language-properties vp-adaptive-theme"><button title="Copy Code" class="copy"></button><span class="lang">properties</span><pre class="shiki shiki-themes github-light github-dark vp-code" tabindex="0"><code><span class="line"><span style="--shiki-light:#6A737D;--shiki-dark:#6A737D;"># Create more, smaller input partitions before the shuffle (default 128m)</span></span>
+<span class="line"><span style="--shiki-light:#D73A49;--shiki-dark:#F97583;">spark.sql.files.maxPartitionBytes</span><span style="--shiki-light:#24292E;--shiki-dark:#E1E4E8;">=128m</span></span>
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+<span class="line"><span style="--shiki-light:#6A737D;--shiki-dark:#6A737D;"># Execution/storage share of (JVM heap - 300MiB) (default 0.6);</span></span>
+<span class="line"><span style="--shiki-light:#6A737D;--shiki-dark:#6A737D;"># raising it grows execution memory but starves the untracked user-memory region</span></span>
+<span class="line"><span style="--shiki-light:#D73A49;--shiki-dark:#F97583;">spark.memory.fraction</span><span style="--shiki-light:#24292E;--shiki-dark:#E1E4E8;">=0.6</span></span></code></pre></div><p>For the <strong>skew</strong> case (only a few tasks spill), the fix is <code>df.repartition(n)</code>, not more memory: see <a href="./partitioning.html">Partitioning</a>.</p><h2 id="confidence" tabindex="-1">Confidence <a class="header-anchor" href="#confidence" aria-label="Permalink to &quot;Confidence&quot;"></a></h2><p>The core detection (any <code>memoryBytesSpilled &gt; 0</code>) and the skew-vs-volume classification are validated: both the skew branch (most tasks spill nothing, so the shape of the data is the problem) and the volume branch (nearly every task spills, so the pool is too small) map to a well-understood fix, and neither needs further validation. <span class="tag">EXPERIMENTAL</span> When a spill matches neither shape, it falls back to a low-confidence unclassified finding that still requires validation, because there is no confirmed cause to act on; the page defaults it to the volume remedy, but that is a guess, not a diagnosis.</p><h2 id="limitations-false-positive-risk" tabindex="-1">Limitations / false-positive risk <a class="header-anchor" href="#limitations-false-positive-risk" aria-label="Permalink to &quot;Limitations / false-positive risk&quot;"></a></h2><p>Some spill is normal. A large aggregation or join can spill by design once its working set outgrows execution memory, and a small spill on a healthy stage rarely repays the effort of chasing it. 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data-v-39a288b8><div class="content-container" data-v-39a288b8><!--[--><!--]--><main class="main" data-v-39a288b8><div style="position:relative;" class="vp-doc _docs_tuning-reference_bottleneck-straggler" data-v-39a288b8><div><h1 id="bottleneck-straggler" tabindex="-1">Stragglers <a class="header-anchor" href="#bottleneck-straggler" aria-label="Permalink to &quot;Stragglers {#bottleneck-straggler}&quot;"></a></h1><p><span class="tag">STRAG</span></p><h2 id="what-it-is" tabindex="-1">What it is <a class="header-anchor" href="#what-it-is" aria-label="Permalink to &quot;What it is&quot;"></a></h2><p>A straggler is one task (or a small handful of tasks) that runs far longer than the rest of the tasks in its stage, even when the stage is otherwise healthy. Because a stage only completes once its last task finishes, a single straggler holds up the whole stage, and every other executor sits idle waiting for it to catch up.</p><h2 id="how-it-s-detected" tabindex="-1">How it&#39;s detected <a class="header-anchor" href="#how-it-s-detected" aria-label="Permalink to &quot;How it&#39;s detected&quot;"></a></h2><p>A task counts as a straggler when speculative tasks fired for it, or when more than 5% of the tasks in a stage run at least 4× the stage&#39;s median task duration; this rule only applies once a stage has at least 10 tasks.</p><p>&quot;Duration&quot; here is <code>executorRunTime</code>: elapsed wall-clock time, not CPU time, and it already includes any time the task spent blocked fetching shuffle data<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn1" id="fnref1">[1]</a></sup>. That matters when tracking down why a task is slow: a long <code>executorRunTime</code> doesn&#39;t necessarily mean more compute happened. A <a href="./bottleneck-gc.html">garbage-collection pause</a> is counted inside it rather than added on top (<code>jvmGCTime</code> is a subset of <code>executorRunTime</code>, not additive<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn1" id="fnref1:1">[1:1]</a></sup>), and a task waiting on a remote shuffle block it needs next shows up in <code>shuffleReadMetrics.fetchWaitTime</code>, which only counts genuine blocking time, not blocks being prefetched in the background<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn1" id="fnref1:2">[1:2]</a></sup>.</p><p>The &quot;speculative tasks fired&quot; half of the rule is Spark&#39;s own detector: once <code>spark.speculation.quantile</code> (default <code>0.9</code>) of a stage&#39;s tasks finish, Spark compares each remaining task&#39;s duration against <code>spark.speculation.multiplier</code> (default <code>3</code>) times the median of the tasks that already finished, subject to a <code>spark.speculation.minTaskRuntime</code> floor (default <code>100ms</code>) so short tasks aren&#39;t flagged just for being slower than a tiny median<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn2" id="fnref2">[2]</a></sup>. Speculation itself is off by default (<code>spark.speculation</code> defaults to <code>false</code>), so this half of the rule only fires on stages where it&#39;s been turned on<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn2" id="fnref2:1">[2:1]</a></sup>.</p><p>Watch for overlap with <a href="./bottleneck-skew.html">task skew</a>: an unevenly distributed key sends one partition far more data than its peers, and that partition&#39;s task will trip this same duration threshold even though the underlying cause is data volume, not a slow host or a GC pause. Check the skew signals before assuming the latter.</p><h2 id="why-it-matters" tabindex="-1">Why it matters <a class="header-anchor" href="#why-it-matters" aria-label="Permalink to &quot;Why it matters&quot;"></a></h2><p>A straggler wastes cluster capacity the same way a skewed stage does: every executor other than the one running the slow task finishes early and idles, while total job time still tracks the single slowest task. Because a straggler&#39;s duration can be inflated by a GC pause<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn1" id="fnref1:3">[1:3]</a></sup> or a slow <a href="./shuffle.html">shuffle</a> fetch<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn1" id="fnref1:4">[1:4]</a></sup> rather than genuinely more work, it&#39;s worth checking those angles (and whether the real cause is skew rather than anything task-local) before assuming a hardware explanation.</p><h2 id="how-to-fix-it" tabindex="-1">How to fix it <a class="header-anchor" href="#how-to-fix-it" aria-label="Permalink to &quot;How to fix it&quot;"></a></h2><ul><li>Enable speculative execution: <code>spark.speculation</code> is <code>false</code> by default, so nothing reruns a slow task automatically until it&#39;s turned on<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn2" id="fnref2:2">[2:2]</a></sup>.</li><li>Tune the trigger: <code>spark.speculation.quantile</code> (default <code>0.9</code>) sets how much of the stage must finish before speculation kicks in, and <code>spark.speculation.multiplier</code> (default <code>3</code>) sets how many times slower than the median a task must be. For stages with very few tasks, <code>spark.speculation.task.duration.threshold</code> (available since 3.0.0) gives an absolute-duration trigger instead of relying on the median<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn2" id="fnref2:3">[2:3]</a></sup>.</li><li>Since Spark 3.4, <code>spark.speculation.efficiency.enabled</code> (default <code>true</code>) adds a filter so a task is only speculated if its data-process rate is below the stage average (times <code>spark.speculation.efficiency.processRateMultiplier</code>, default <code>0.75</code>) or its duration exceeds <code>spark.speculation.efficiency.longRunTaskFactor</code> (default <code>2</code>) times the same time threshold. This avoids wasting a duplicate task slot on work that&#39;s simply doing more, not running slower<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn2" id="fnref2:4">[2:4]</a></sup>.</li><li>If the cause is really a skewed key, treat it as <a href="./bottleneck-skew.html">task skew</a> instead: AQE&#39;s skew-join optimization automatically splits a partition once it&#39;s larger than <code>spark.sql.adaptive.skewJoin.skewedPartitionFactor</code> (default <code>5.0</code>) times the median partition size and above <code>spark.sql.adaptive.skewJoin.skewedPartitionThresholdInBytes</code> (default <code>256 MB</code>)<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn2" id="fnref2:5">[2:5]</a></sup><sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn3" id="fnref3">[3]</a></sup>. Manual salting (appending a random prefix to the skewed key so it spreads across more partitions) is the pre-AQE fallback, though the design doc behind AQE&#39;s skew handling calls salting and other manual approaches limited compared to the automatic option<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn4" id="fnref4">[4]</a></sup>.</li></ul><blockquote><p><strong>PySpark:</strong> speculation settings can be set on the session directly, no <code>spark-submit</code> flag needed: <code>spark.conf.set(&quot;spark.speculation&quot;, &quot;true&quot;)</code>, then the quantile/multiplier equivalents the same way.</p></blockquote><p>Speculation config: defaults shown, plus the absolute-duration trigger for small stages:</p><div class="language-properties vp-adaptive-theme"><button title="Copy Code" class="copy"></button><span class="lang">properties</span><pre class="shiki shiki-themes github-light github-dark vp-code" tabindex="0"><code><span class="line"><span style="--shiki-light:#6A737D;--shiki-dark:#6A737D;"># Speculatively relaunch straggler tasks (OFF by default)</span></span>
+<span class="line"><span style="--shiki-light:#D73A49;--shiki-dark:#F97583;">spark.speculation</span><span style="--shiki-light:#24292E;--shiki-dark:#E1E4E8;">=true</span></span>
+<span class="line"><span style="--shiki-light:#D73A49;--shiki-dark:#F97583;">spark.speculation.quantile</span><span style="--shiki-light:#24292E;--shiki-dark:#E1E4E8;">=0.9          </span><span style="--shiki-light:#6A737D;--shiki-dark:#6A737D;"># default; portion of tasks finished before speculation begins</span></span>
+<span class="line"><span style="--shiki-light:#D73A49;--shiki-dark:#F97583;">spark.speculation.multiplier</span><span style="--shiki-light:#24292E;--shiki-dark:#E1E4E8;">=3          </span><span style="--shiki-light:#6A737D;--shiki-dark:#6A737D;"># default; multiple of median duration that marks a task slow</span></span>
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+<span class="line"><span style="--shiki-light:#D73A49;--shiki-dark:#F97583;">spark.speculation.task.duration.threshold</span><span style="--shiki-light:#24292E;--shiki-dark:#E1E4E8;">=10s   </span><span style="--shiki-light:#6A737D;--shiki-dark:#6A737D;"># 10s is an example</span></span></code></pre></div><h2 id="confidence" tabindex="-1">Confidence <a class="header-anchor" href="#confidence" aria-label="Permalink to &quot;Confidence&quot;"></a></h2><p>Validated.</p><h2 id="limitations-false-positive-risk" tabindex="-1">Limitations / false-positive risk <a class="header-anchor" href="#limitations-false-positive-risk" aria-label="Permalink to &quot;Limitations / false-positive risk&quot;"></a></h2><p>The 4x-median rule flags a slow task, but slow is not the same as broken. The same threshold trips on a skewed key that simply has more data to process, or on a task that spent its time in a GC pause rather than doing extra work, so a flagged task is not automatically a slow host. Small stages make this worse: with only a handful of tasks the median is unstable, and one moderately slow task can look like a straggler against a median computed from too few peers.</p><h2 id="related" tabindex="-1">Related <a class="header-anchor" href="#related" aria-label="Permalink to &quot;Related&quot;"></a></h2><ul><li><strong>When the real cause is a skewed key:</strong> <a href="./partitioning.html">Partitioning</a>, <a href="./aqe.html">Adaptive Query Execution</a></li></ul><hr class="footnotes-sep"><section class="footnotes"><ol class="footnotes-list"><li id="fn1" class="footnote-item"><p><a href="https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/monitoring.html#spark-history-server" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Monitoring and Instrumentation</a> <a href="#fnref1" class="footnote-backref">↩︎</a> <a href="#fnref1:1" class="footnote-backref">↩︎</a> <a href="#fnref1:2" class="footnote-backref">↩︎</a> <a href="#fnref1:3" class="footnote-backref">↩︎</a> <a href="#fnref1:4" class="footnote-backref">↩︎</a></p></li><li id="fn2" class="footnote-item"><p><a href="https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/configuration.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Configuration (Spark)</a> <a href="#fnref2" class="footnote-backref">↩︎</a> <a href="#fnref2:1" class="footnote-backref">↩︎</a> <a href="#fnref2:2" class="footnote-backref">↩︎</a> <a href="#fnref2:3" class="footnote-backref">↩︎</a> <a href="#fnref2:4" class="footnote-backref">↩︎</a> <a href="#fnref2:5" class="footnote-backref">↩︎</a></p></li><li id="fn3" class="footnote-item"><p><a href="https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-performance-tuning.html#optimizing-skew-join" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Optimizing Skew Join (Spark SQL, DataFrames and Datasets Guide)</a> <a href="#fnref3" class="footnote-backref">↩︎</a></p></li><li id="fn4" class="footnote-item"><p><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-29544" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">SPARK-29544: Optimize Skewed Join at Runtime with New Adaptive Execution</a> <a href="#fnref4" class="footnote-backref">↩︎</a></p></li></ol></section></div></div></main><footer class="VPDocFooter" data-v-39a288b8 data-v-e257564d><!--[--><!--]--><!----><nav class="prev-next" aria-labelledby="doc-footer-aria-label" data-v-e257564d><span class="visually-hidden" id="doc-footer-aria-label" data-v-e257564d>Pager</span><div class="pager" data-v-e257564d><a class="VPLink link pager-link prev" href="../tuning-reference/bottleneck-failures.html" data-v-e257564d><!--[--><span class="desc" data-v-e257564d>Previous page</span><span class="title" data-v-e257564d>Task Failures</span><!--]--></a></div><div class="pager" data-v-e257564d><a class="VPLink link pager-link next" href="../tuning-reference/bottleneck-retry-waste.html" data-v-e257564d><!--[--><span class="desc" data-v-e257564d>Next page</span><span class="title" data-v-e257564d>Retry Waste</span><!--]--></a></div></nav></footer><!--[--><!--]--></div></div></div><!--[--><!--]--></div></div><!----><!--[--><!--]--></div></div>
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Spark schedules around data locality rather than moving data to code: &quot;Spark builds its scheduling around this general principle&quot; that shipping serialized code is cheaper than shipping data, preferring <code>PROCESS_LOCAL</code> locality down to <code>ANY</code> and waiting a configurable timeout for a busy CPU to free up before shipping data to a farther executor<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn1" id="fnref1">[1]</a></sup>. On top of that placement cost, every task also pays a serialization cost for its closure and, if not using Kryo, for its data: Java&#39;s default <code>ObjectOutputStream</code>-based serialization &quot;is flexible but often quite slow, and leads to large serialized formats,&quot; while Kryo is &quot;significantly faster and more compact than Java serialization (often as much as 10x)&quot;<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn1" id="fnref1:1">[1:1]</a></sup>. None of that overhead is large per task: Spark&#39;s own guidance leans toward more, smaller tasks rather than fewer, larger ones, unlike MapReduce: &quot;it&#39;s almost always better to err on the side of a larger number of tasks (and thus partitions)... The difference stems from the fact that MapReduce has a high startup overhead for tasks, while Spark does not&quot;<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn2" id="fnref2">[2]</a></sup>. But once partitions get small enough, that per-task overhead stops being negligible and starts to dominate.</p><h2 id="how-it-s-detected" tabindex="-1">How it&#39;s detected <a class="header-anchor" href="#how-it-s-detected" aria-label="Permalink to &quot;How it&#39;s detected&quot;"></a></h2><p>The failure mode is partitions so small that scheduling and serialization overhead outweighs the actual work. With Spark&#39;s default of 200 shuffle partitions applied to a dataset of only a few megabytes, &quot;those 200 partitions will each get like ten rows. Tasks become microscopic. Most of your CPUs will just be sitting there doing nothing, wasting cluster hours&quot;<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn3" id="fnref3">[3]</a></sup>. The same small-partition penalty shows up on the <a href="./bottleneck-shuffle.html">shuffle-read side</a>: production measurements found &quot;the average shuffle block size is only 10s of KBs, which leads to delayed shuffle data fetch,&quot; and the shuffle reduce stages with the largest fetch delays (over 30 seconds per task) were consistently the ones with small block sizes<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn4" id="fnref4">[4]</a></sup>. A high task count paired with very short median task duration, and/or very small shuffle block sizes on the read side, are the signals to look for.</p><h2 id="why-it-matters" tabindex="-1">Why it matters <a class="header-anchor" href="#why-it-matters" aria-label="Permalink to &quot;Why it matters&quot;"></a></h2><p>Tiny tasks waste cluster capacity even though no single task is a straggler the way <a href="./bottleneck-skew.html">skewed</a> or <a href="./bottleneck-straggler.html">straggler</a> tasks are: the cost here is spread evenly across thousands of tasks, each individually cheap but collectively adding up in scheduling and serialization overhead, while cores that could be doing other useful work sit mostly idle between task launches<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn3" id="fnref3:1">[3:1]</a></sup>.</p><h2 id="how-to-fix-it" tabindex="-1">How to fix it <a class="header-anchor" href="#how-to-fix-it" aria-label="Permalink to &quot;How to fix it&quot;"></a></h2><ul><li><code>coalesce()</code> merges existing partitions without a shuffle (&quot;no data movement, no shuffle&quot;) and is typically used right before a write, e.g. <code>df.coalesce(100).write.parquet(...)</code>, to collapse many tiny output files into a manageable number cheaply<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn3" id="fnref3:2">[3:2]</a></sup>. Because it only stacks partitions together rather than redistributing data, it doesn&#39;t fix an uneven underlying distribution (uneven input partitions stay uneven, just grouped) and pushing it too far (<code>coalesce(1)</code>) kills parallelism by funneling all work onto one executor while the rest sit idle<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn3" id="fnref3:3">[3:3]</a></sup>.</li><li><code>repartition()</code> performs a full reshuffle, giving control and rebalancing that Spark won&#39;t do on its own: with <code>df.repartition(200)</code>, &quot;you&#39;re paying for predictability&quot;<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn3" id="fnref3:4">[3:4]</a></sup>. Use it when the partitioning itself needs to be fixed or rebalanced, not merely reduced in count, accepting the shuffle cost to get there.</li><li>There&#39;s a middle option, <code>coalesce(N, shuffle=True)</code>, which &quot;acts more like a repartition, but leaning toward reduction... not free (you pay for the shuffle cost) but you get better distribution and fewer partitions&quot;<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn3" id="fnref3:5">[3:5]</a></sup>.</li><li>Rule of thumb: reach for <code>coalesce()</code> when only the partition count needs to shrink and the existing distribution is already reasonably even (e.g. collapsing output files); reach for <code>repartition()</code> when the distribution itself is the problem.</li></ul><blockquote><p><strong>PySpark:</strong> both are one-line calls on a DataFrame: <code>df.coalesce(100)</code> for a shuffle-free merge, <code>df.repartition(200)</code> for a full reshuffle, or <code>df.coalesce(100, shuffle=True)</code> for the shuffled middle option.</p></blockquote><p>The three sizing calls, side by side:</p><div class="language-python vp-adaptive-theme"><button title="Copy Code" class="copy"></button><span class="lang">python</span><pre class="shiki shiki-themes github-light github-dark vp-code" tabindex="0"><code><span class="line"><span style="--shiki-light:#6A737D;--shiki-dark:#6A737D;"># Collapse many tiny output files without a shuffle (use when distribution is already even)</span></span>
+<span class="line"><span style="--shiki-light:#24292E;--shiki-dark:#E1E4E8;">df.coalesce(</span><span style="--shiki-light:#005CC5;--shiki-dark:#79B8FF;">100</span><span style="--shiki-light:#24292E;--shiki-dark:#E1E4E8;">).write.parquet(path)</span></span>
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+<span class="line"><span style="--shiki-light:#6A737D;--shiki-dark:#6A737D;"># Full reshuffle to a target count, use when the distribution itself needs rebalancing</span></span>
+<span class="line"><span style="--shiki-light:#24292E;--shiki-dark:#E1E4E8;">df </span><span style="--shiki-light:#D73A49;--shiki-dark:#F97583;">=</span><span style="--shiki-light:#24292E;--shiki-dark:#E1E4E8;"> df.repartition(</span><span style="--shiki-light:#005CC5;--shiki-dark:#79B8FF;">200</span><span style="--shiki-light:#24292E;--shiki-dark:#E1E4E8;">)</span></span>
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+<span class="line"><span style="--shiki-light:#6A737D;--shiki-dark:#6A737D;"># Middle ground: reduce partition count but still rebalance (pays a shuffle)</span></span>
+<span class="line"><span style="--shiki-light:#24292E;--shiki-dark:#E1E4E8;">df </span><span style="--shiki-light:#D73A49;--shiki-dark:#F97583;">=</span><span style="--shiki-light:#24292E;--shiki-dark:#E1E4E8;"> df.coalesce(</span><span style="--shiki-light:#005CC5;--shiki-dark:#79B8FF;">100</span><span style="--shiki-light:#24292E;--shiki-dark:#E1E4E8;">, </span><span style="--shiki-light:#E36209;--shiki-dark:#FFAB70;">shuffle</span><span style="--shiki-light:#D73A49;--shiki-dark:#F97583;">=</span><span style="--shiki-light:#005CC5;--shiki-dark:#79B8FF;">True</span><span style="--shiki-light:#24292E;--shiki-dark:#E1E4E8;">)</span></span></code></pre></div><h2 id="limitations-false-positive-risk" tabindex="-1">Limitations / false-positive risk <a class="header-anchor" href="#limitations-false-positive-risk" aria-label="Permalink to &quot;Limitations / false-positive risk&quot;"></a></h2><p>Very short tasks are not always a problem. A tiny final stage can be perfectly fine, and one that just writes a small result set doesn&#39;t need to be resized. The scheduling-overhead penalty only bites when tiny tasks dominate the stage, so treat a handful of short tasks as noise rather than a finding.</p><h2 id="related" tabindex="-1">Related <a class="header-anchor" href="#related" aria-label="Permalink to &quot;Related&quot;"></a></h2><ul><li><strong>Partition sizing:</strong> <a href="./partitioning.html">Partitioning</a></li></ul><hr class="footnotes-sep"><section class="footnotes"><ol class="footnotes-list"><li id="fn1" class="footnote-item"><p><a href="https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/tuning.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Tuning (Spark)</a> <a href="#fnref1" class="footnote-backref">↩︎</a> <a href="#fnref1:1" class="footnote-backref">↩︎</a></p></li><li id="fn2" class="footnote-item"><p><a href="https://blog.cloudera.com/how-to-tune-your-apache-spark-jobs-part-2/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">How to Tune Your Apache Spark Jobs (Part 2): Cloudera</a> <a href="#fnref2" class="footnote-backref">↩︎</a></p></li><li id="fn3" class="footnote-item"><p><a href="https://luminousmen.com/post/spark-partitions" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Spark Partitions</a> <a href="#fnref3" class="footnote-backref">↩︎</a> <a href="#fnref3:1" class="footnote-backref">↩︎</a> <a href="#fnref3:2" class="footnote-backref">↩︎</a> <a href="#fnref3:3" class="footnote-backref">↩︎</a> <a href="#fnref3:4" class="footnote-backref">↩︎</a> <a href="#fnref3:5" class="footnote-backref">↩︎</a></p></li><li id="fn4" class="footnote-item"><p><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-30602" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">SPARK-30602</a> <a href="#fnref4" class="footnote-backref">↩︎</a></p></li></ol></section></div></div></main><footer class="VPDocFooter" data-v-39a288b8 data-v-e257564d><!--[--><!--]--><!----><nav class="prev-next" aria-labelledby="doc-footer-aria-label" data-v-e257564d><span class="visually-hidden" id="doc-footer-aria-label" data-v-e257564d>Pager</span><div class="pager" data-v-e257564d><a class="VPLink link pager-link prev" href="../tuning-reference/bottleneck-retry-waste.html" data-v-e257564d><!--[--><span class="desc" data-v-e257564d>Previous page</span><span class="title" data-v-e257564d>Retry Waste</span><!--]--></a></div><div class="pager" data-v-e257564d><a class="VPLink link pager-link next" href="../tuning-reference/bottleneck-job-failure-rate.html" data-v-e257564d><!--[--><span class="desc" data-v-e257564d>Next page</span><span class="title" data-v-e257564d>Job Failure Rate</span><!--]--></a></div></nav></footer><!--[--><!--]--></div></div></div><!--[--><!--]--></div></div><!----><!--[--><!--]--></div></div>
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