From 52b24a602ad615a7f6aa427aefb1c7444c05d298 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tathagata Das Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2015 14:54:43 -0700 Subject: [SPARK-10492] [STREAMING] [DOCUMENTATION] Update Streaming documentation about rate limiting and backpressure Author: Tathagata Das Closes #8656 from tdas/SPARK-10492 and squashes the following commits: 986cdd6 [Tathagata Das] Added information on backpressure --- docs/streaming-programming-guide.md | 13 ++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'docs/streaming-programming-guide.md') diff --git a/docs/streaming-programming-guide.md b/docs/streaming-programming-guide.md index a1acf83f75..c751dbb417 100644 --- a/docs/streaming-programming-guide.md +++ b/docs/streaming-programming-guide.md @@ -1807,7 +1807,7 @@ To run a Spark Streaming applications, you need to have the following. + *Mesos* - [Marathon](https://github.com/mesosphere/marathon) has been used to achieve this with Mesos. -- *[Since Spark 1.2] Configuring write ahead logs* - Since Spark 1.2, +- *Configuring write ahead logs* - Since Spark 1.2, we have introduced _write ahead logs_ for achieving strong fault-tolerance guarantees. If enabled, all the data received from a receiver gets written into a write ahead log in the configuration checkpoint directory. This prevents data loss on driver @@ -1822,6 +1822,17 @@ To run a Spark Streaming applications, you need to have the following. stored in a replicated storage system. This can be done by setting the storage level for the input stream to `StorageLevel.MEMORY_AND_DISK_SER`. +- *Setting the max receiving rate* - If the cluster resources is not large enough for the streaming + application to process data as fast as it is being received, the receivers can be rate limited + by setting a maximum rate limit in terms of records / sec. + See the [configuration parameters](configuration.html#spark-streaming) + `spark.streaming.receiver.maxRate` for receivers and `spark.streaming.kafka.maxRatePerPartition` + for Direct Kafka approach. In Spark 1.5, we have introduced a feature called *backpressure* that + eliminate the need to set this rate limit, as Spark Streaming automatically figures out the + rate limits and dynamically adjusts them if the processing conditions change. This backpressure + can be enabled by setting the [configuration parameter](configuration.html#spark-streaming) + `spark.streaming.backpressure.enabled` to `true`. + ### Upgrading Application Code {:.no_toc} -- cgit v1.2.3