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authorTom Graves <tgraves@yahoo-inc.com>2016-07-22 12:41:38 +0100
committerSean Owen <sowen@cloudera.com>2016-07-22 12:41:38 +0100
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[SPARK-16650] Improve documentation of spark.task.maxFailures
Clarify documentation on spark.task.maxFailures No tests run as its documentation Author: Tom Graves <tgraves@yahoo-inc.com> Closes #14287 from tgravescs/SPARK-16650.
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<td><code>spark.task.maxFailures</code></td>
<td>4</td>
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- Number of individual task failures before giving up on the job.
+ Number of failures of any particular task before giving up on the job.
+ The total number of failures spread across different tasks will not cause the job
+ to fail; a particular task has to fail this number of attempts.
Should be greater than or equal to 1. Number of allowed retries = this value - 1.
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