Why does join fail with "java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException: Futures timed out after [300 seconds]"?

Question

I am using Spark 1.5.

I have two dataframes of the form:

scala> libriFirstTable50Plus3DF
res1: org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame = [basket_id: string, family_id: int]

scala> linkPersonItemLessThan500DF
res2: org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame = [person_id: int, family_id: int]

libriFirstTable50Plus3DF has 766,151 records while linkPersonItemLessThan500DF has 26,694,353 records. Note that I am using repartition(number) on linkPersonItemLessThan500DF since I intend to join these two later on. I am following up the above code with:

val userTripletRankDF = linkPersonItemLessThan500DF
     .join(libriFirstTable50Plus3DF, Seq("family_id"))
     .take(20)
     .foreach(println(_))

for which I am getting this output:

16/12/13 15:07:10 INFO scheduler.TaskSetManager: Finished task 172.0 in stage 3.0 (TID 473) in 520 ms on mlhdd01.mondadori.it (199/200)
java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException: Futures timed out after [300 seconds]
at scala.concurrent.impl.Promise$DefaultPromise.ready(Promise.scala:219)
at scala.concurrent.impl.Promise$DefaultPromise.result(Promise.scala:223)
at scala.concurrent.Await$$anonfun$result$1.apply(package.scala:107)
at scala.concurrent.BlockContext$DefaultBlockContext$.blockOn(BlockContext.scala:        at scala.concurrent.Await$.result(package.scala:107)
at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.joins.BroadcastHashJoin.doExecute(BroadcastHashJoin.scala:110)
at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SparkPlan$$anonfun$execute$5.apply(SparkPlan.scala:140)
at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SparkPlan$$anonfun$execute$5.apply(SparkPlan.scala:138)
at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDDOperationScope$.withScope(RDDOperationScope.scala:147)
at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SparkPlan.execute(SparkPlan.scala:138)
at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.TungstenProject.doExecute(basicOperators.scala:86)
at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SparkPlan$$anonfun$execute$5.apply(SparkPlan.scala:140)
at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SparkPlan$$anonfun$execute$5.apply(SparkPlan.scala:138)
at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDDOperationScope$.withScope(RDDOperationScope.scala:147)
at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SparkPlan.execute(SparkPlan.scala:138)
at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.ConvertToSafe.doExecute(rowFormatConverters.scala:63)
at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SparkPlan$$anonfun$execute$5.apply(SparkPlan.scala:140)
at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SparkPlan$$anonfun$execute$5.apply(SparkPlan.scala:138)
at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDDOperationScope$.withScope(RDDOperationScope.scala:147)
 at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SparkPlan.execute(SparkPlan.scala:138)
 at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SparkPlan.executeTake(SparkPlan.scala:190)
 at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.Limit.executeCollect(basicOperators.scala:207)
 at org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame$$anonfun$collect$1.apply(DataFrame.scala:1386)
 at org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame$$anonfun$collect$1.apply(DataFrame.scala:1386)
 at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SQLExecution$.withNewExecutionId(SQLExecution.scala:56)
 at org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame.withNewExecutionId(DataFrame.scala:1904)
 at org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame.collect(DataFrame.scala:1385)
 at org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame.head(DataFrame.scala:1315)
 at org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame.take(DataFrame.scala:1378)
 at org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame.showString(DataFrame.scala:178)
 at org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame.show(DataFrame.scala:402)
 at org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame.show(DataFrame.scala:363)
 at org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame.show(DataFrame.scala:371)
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 at $iwC$$iwC.<init>(<console>:95)
 at $iwC.<init>(<console>:97)
 at <init>(<console>:99)
 at .<init>(<console>:103)
 at .<clinit>(<console>)
 at .<init>(<console>:7)
 at .<clinit>(<console>)
 at $print(<console>)
 at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
 at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
 at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
 at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkIMain$ReadEvalPrint.call(SparkIMain.scala:1065)
 at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkIMain$Request.loadAndRun(SparkIMain.scala:1340)
 at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkIMain.loadAndRunReq$1(SparkIMain.scala:840)
 at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkIMain.interpret(SparkIMain.scala:871)
 at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkIMain.interpret(SparkIMain.scala:819)
 at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkILoop.reallyInterpret$1(SparkILoop.scala:857)
 at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkILoop.interpretStartingWith(SparkILoop.scala:902)
 at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkILoop.command(SparkILoop.scala:814)
 at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkILoop.processLine$1(SparkILoop.scala:657)
 at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkILoop.innerLoop$1(SparkILoop.scala:665)
 at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkILoop.org$apache$spark$repl$SparkILoop$$loop(SparkILoop.scala:670)
 at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkILoop$$anonfun$org$apache$spark$repl$SparkILoop$$process$1.apply$mcZ$sp(SparkILoop.scala:997)
 at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkILoop$$anonfun$org$apache$spark$repl$SparkILoop$$process$1.apply(SparkILoop.scala:945)
 at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkILoop$$anonfun$org$apache$spark$repl$SparkILoop$$process$1.apply(SparkILoop.scala:945)
 at scala.tools.nsc.util.ScalaClassLoader$.savingContextLoader(ScalaClassLoader.scala:135)
 at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkILoop.org$apache$spark$repl$SparkILoop$$process(SparkILoop.scala:945)
 at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkILoop.process(SparkILoop.scala:1059)
 at org.apache.spark.repl.Main$.main(Main.scala:31)
 at org.apache.spark.repl.Main.main(Main.scala)
 at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
 at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
 at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
 at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.org$apache$spark$deploy$SparkSubmit$$runMain(SparkSubmit.scala:672)
 at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.doRunMain$1(SparkSubmit.scala:180)
 at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.submit(SparkSubmit.scala:205)
 at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.main(SparkSubmit.scala:120)
 at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit.main(SparkSubmit.scala)

and I don't understand what is the issue. Is it as simple as increasing the waiting time? Is the join too intensive? Do I need more memory? Is the shufffling intensive? Can anyone help?

Answer 1

This happens because Spark tries to do Broadcast Hash Join and one of the DataFrames is very large, so sending it consumes much time.

You can:

1. Set higher spark.sql.broadcastTimeout to increase timeout - spark.conf.set("spark.sql.broadcastTimeout", newValueForExample36000)
2. persist() both DataFrames, then Spark will use Shuffle Join - reference from here

PySpark

In PySpark, you can set the config when you build the spark context in the following manner:

spark = SparkSession
  .builder
  .appName("Your App")
  .config("spark.sql.broadcastTimeout", "36000")
  .getOrCreate()