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authorReynold Xin <rxin@apache.org>2014-07-15 01:46:57 -0700
committerReynold Xin <rxin@apache.org>2014-07-15 01:46:57 -0700
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[SPARK-2399] Add support for LZ4 compression.
Based on Greg Bowyer's patch from JIRA https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-2399 Author: Reynold Xin <rxin@apache.org> Closes #1416 from rxin/lz4 and squashes the following commits: 6c8fefe [Reynold Xin] Fixed typo. 8a14d38 [Reynold Xin] [SPARK-2399] Add support for LZ4 compression.
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@@ -350,7 +350,15 @@ Apart from these, the following properties are also available, and may be useful
<td>32768</td>
<td>
Block size (in bytes) used in Snappy compression, in the case when Snappy compression codec
- is used.
+ is used. Lowering this block size will also lower shuffle memory usage when Snappy is used.
+ </td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+ <td><code>spark.io.compression.lz4.block.size</code></td>
+ <td>32768</td>
+ <td>
+ Block size (in bytes) used in LZ4 compression, in the case when LZ4 compression codec
+ is used. Lowering this block size will also lower shuffle memory usage when LZ4 is used.
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