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Josh Rosen b89b3a5c8e [SPARK-16956] Make ApplicationState.MAX_NUM_RETRY configurable
## What changes were proposed in this pull request?

This patch introduces a new configuration, `spark.deploy.maxExecutorRetries`, to let users configure an obscure behavior in the standalone master where the master will kill Spark applications which have experienced too many back-to-back executor failures. The current setting is a hardcoded constant (10); this patch replaces that with a new cluster-wide configuration.

**Background:** This application-killing was added in 6b5980da79 (from September 2012) and I believe that it was designed to prevent a faulty application whose executors could never launch from DOS'ing the Spark cluster via an infinite series of executor launch attempts. In a subsequent patch (#1360), this feature was refined to prevent applications which have running executors from being killed by this code path.

**Motivation for making this configurable:** Previously, if a Spark Standalone application experienced more than `ApplicationState.MAX_NUM_RETRY` executor failures and was left with no executors running then the Spark master would kill that application, but this behavior is problematic in environments where the Spark executors run on unstable infrastructure and can all simultaneously die. For instance, if your Spark driver runs on an on-demand EC2 instance while all workers run on ephemeral spot instances then it's possible for all executors to die at the same time while the driver stays alive. In this case, it may be desirable to keep the Spark application alive so that it can recover once new workers and executors are available. In order to accommodate this use-case, this patch modifies the Master to never kill faulty applications if `spark.deploy.maxExecutorRetries` is negative.

I'd like to merge this patch into master, branch-2.0, and branch-1.6.

## How was this patch tested?

I tested this manually using `spark-shell` and `local-cluster` mode. This is a tricky feature to unit test and historically this code has not changed very often, so I'd prefer to skip the additional effort of adding a testing framework and would rather rely on manual tests and review for now.

Author: Josh Rosen <joshrosen@databricks.com>

Closes #14544 from JoshRosen/add-setting-for-max-executor-failures.
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Apache Spark

Spark is a fast and general cluster computing system for Big Data. It provides high-level APIs in Scala, Java, Python, and R, and an optimized engine that supports general computation graphs for data analysis. It also supports a rich set of higher-level tools including Spark SQL for SQL and DataFrames, MLlib for machine learning, GraphX for graph processing, and Spark Streaming for stream processing.

http://spark.apache.org/

Online Documentation

You can find the latest Spark documentation, including a programming guide, on the project web page and project wiki. This README file only contains basic setup instructions.

Building Spark

Spark is built using Apache Maven. To build Spark and its example programs, run:

build/mvn -DskipTests clean package

(You do not need to do this if you downloaded a pre-built package.)

You can build Spark using more than one thread by using the -T option with Maven, see "Parallel builds in Maven 3". More detailed documentation is available from the project site, at "Building Spark". For developing Spark using an IDE, see Eclipse and IntelliJ.

Interactive Scala Shell

The easiest way to start using Spark is through the Scala shell:

./bin/spark-shell

Try the following command, which should return 1000:

scala> sc.parallelize(1 to 1000).count()

Interactive Python Shell

Alternatively, if you prefer Python, you can use the Python shell:

./bin/pyspark

And run the following command, which should also return 1000:

>>> sc.parallelize(range(1000)).count()

Example Programs

Spark also comes with several sample programs in the examples directory. To run one of them, use ./bin/run-example <class> [params]. For example:

./bin/run-example SparkPi

will run the Pi example locally.

You can set the MASTER environment variable when running examples to submit examples to a cluster. This can be a mesos:// or spark:// URL, "yarn" to run on YARN, and "local" to run locally with one thread, or "local[N]" to run locally with N threads. You can also use an abbreviated class name if the class is in the examples package. For instance:

MASTER=spark://host:7077 ./bin/run-example SparkPi

Many of the example programs print usage help if no params are given.

Running Tests

Testing first requires building Spark. Once Spark is built, tests can be run using:

./dev/run-tests

Please see the guidance on how to run tests for a module, or individual tests.

A Note About Hadoop Versions

Spark uses the Hadoop core library to talk to HDFS and other Hadoop-supported storage systems. Because the protocols have changed in different versions of Hadoop, you must build Spark against the same version that your cluster runs.

Please refer to the build documentation at "Specifying the Hadoop Version" for detailed guidance on building for a particular distribution of Hadoop, including building for particular Hive and Hive Thriftserver distributions.

Configuration

Please refer to the Configuration Guide in the online documentation for an overview on how to configure Spark.