What do the numbers on the progress bar mean in spark-shell?
In my spark-shell, what do entries like the below mean when I execute a function ?
[Stage7:===========> (14174 + 5) / 62500]
Solution 1:
What you get is a Console Progress Bar
,
[Stage 7:
shows the stage you are in now, and
(14174 + 5) / 62500]
is (numCompletedTasks + numActiveTasks) / totalNumOfTasksInThisStage]
. The progress bar shows numCompletedTasks
/ totalNumOfTasksInThisStage
.
It will be shown when both spark.ui.showConsoleProgress
is true (by default) and log level in conf/log4j.properties
is ERROR
or WARN
(!log.isInfoEnabled
is true).
Let's see the code in ConsoleProgressBar.scala that shows it out:
private def show(now: Long, stages: Seq[SparkStageInfo]) {
val width = TerminalWidth / stages.size
val bar = stages.map { s =>
val total = s.numTasks()
val header = s"[Stage ${s.stageId()}:"
val tailer = s"(${s.numCompletedTasks()} + ${s.numActiveTasks()}) / $total]"
val w = width - header.length - tailer.length
val bar = if (w > 0) {
val percent = w * s.numCompletedTasks() / total
(0 until w).map { i =>
if (i < percent) "=" else if (i == percent) ">" else " "
}.mkString("")
} else {
""
}
header + bar + tailer
}.mkString("")
// only refresh if it's changed of after 1 minute (or the ssh connection will be closed
// after idle some time)
if (bar != lastProgressBar || now - lastUpdateTime > 60 * 1000L) {
System.err.print(CR + bar)
lastUpdateTime = now
}
lastProgressBar = bar
}
Solution 2:
Let's assume you see the following (X,A,B,C are always non negative integers):
[Stage X:==========> (A + B) / C]
(for example in the question X=7, A=14174, B=5 and C=62500)
Here is what is going on at a high level: Spark breaks the work in stages and tasks in each stage. This progress indicator means that Stage X is comprised of C tasks. During the execution, A and B start at zero and keep changing. A is always the number of tasks already finished and B is the number of tasks currently executing. For a stage with many tasks (way more than the workers you have) you should expect to see B grow to a number that corresponds to how many workers you have in the cluster, then you should start seeing A increase as tasks complete. Towards the end, as the last few tasks execute, B will start decreasing until it reaches 0, at which point A should equal C, the stage is done, and spark moves to the next stage. C will stay constant during the whole time, remember it is the total number of tasks in the stage and never changes.
The ====> shows the percentage of work done based on what I described above. At the beginning the > will be towards the left and will be moving to the right as tasks are completed.