Repository: spark
Updated Branches:
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[SPARK-5112] Expose SizeEstimator as a developer api

"The best way to size the amount of memory consumption your dataset will 
require is to create an RDD, put it into cache, and look at the SparkContext 
logs on your driver program. The logs will tell you how much memory each 
partition is consuming, which you can aggregate to get the total size of the 
RDD."
-the Tuning Spark page

This is a pain. It would be much nicer to expose simply functionality for 
understanding the memory footprint of a Java object.

Author: Sandy Ryza <[email protected]>

Closes #3913 from sryza/sandy-spark-5112 and squashes the following commits:

8d9e082 [Sandy Ryza] Add SizeEstimator in org.apache.spark
2e1a906 [Sandy Ryza] Revert "Move SizeEstimator out of util"
93f4cd0 [Sandy Ryza] Move SizeEstimator out of util
e21c1f4 [Sandy Ryza] Remove unused import
798ab88 [Sandy Ryza] Update documentation and add to SparkContext
34c523c [Sandy Ryza] SPARK-5112. Expose SizeEstimator as a developer api

(cherry picked from commit 4222da68dc5360b7a2a8b8bdce231e887ac2f044)
Signed-off-by: Sean Owen <[email protected]>


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Branch: refs/heads/branch-1.4
Commit: 0327ca2b2c6ffb4dbd2770861a3b3ba806d55e58
Parents: 93af96a
Author: Sandy Ryza <[email protected]>
Authored: Tue May 5 12:38:46 2015 +0100
Committer: Sean Owen <[email protected]>
Committed: Tue May 5 12:38:54 2015 +0100

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 .../scala/org/apache/spark/SizeEstimator.scala  | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++
 docs/tuning.md                                  | 10 +++--
 2 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
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http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/spark/blob/0327ca2b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/SizeEstimator.scala
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diff --git a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/SizeEstimator.scala 
b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/SizeEstimator.scala
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..54fc3a8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/SizeEstimator.scala
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.spark
+
+import org.apache.spark.annotation.DeveloperApi
+
+/**
+ * Estimates the sizes of Java objects (number of bytes of memory they 
occupy), for use in
+ * memory-aware caches.
+ *
+ * Based on the following JavaWorld article:
+ * http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/javaqa/2003-12/02-qa-1226-sizeof.html
+ */
+@DeveloperApi
+object SizeEstimator {
+  /**
+   * :: DeveloperApi ::
+   * Estimate the number of bytes that the given object takes up on the JVM 
heap. The estimate
+   * includes space taken up by objects referenced by the given object, their 
references, and so on
+   * and so forth.
+   *
+   * This is useful for determining the amount of heap space a broadcast 
variable will occupy on
+   * each executor or the amount of space each object will take when caching 
objects in
+   * deserialized form. This is not the same as the serialized size of the 
object, which will
+   * typically be much smaller.
+   */
+  @DeveloperApi
+  def estimate(obj: AnyRef): Long = 
org.apache.spark.util.SizeEstimator.estimate(obj)
+}

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/spark/blob/0327ca2b/docs/tuning.md
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diff --git a/docs/tuning.md b/docs/tuning.md
index 1cb223e..572c727 100644
--- a/docs/tuning.md
+++ b/docs/tuning.md
@@ -94,11 +94,13 @@ We will then cover tuning Spark's cache size and the Java 
garbage collector.
 
 ## Determining Memory Consumption
 
-The best way to size the amount of memory consumption your dataset will 
require is to create an RDD, put it into cache, and look at the SparkContext 
logs on your driver program. The logs will tell you how much memory each 
partition is consuming, which you can aggregate to get the total size of the 
RDD. You will see messages like this:
+The best way to size the amount of memory consumption a dataset will require 
is to create an RDD, put it
+into cache, and look at the "Storage" page in the web UI. The page will tell 
you how much memory the RDD
+is occupying.
 
-    INFO BlockManagerMasterActor: Added rdd_0_1 in memory on mbk.local:50311 
(size: 717.5 KB, free: 332.3 MB)
-
-This means that partition 1 of RDD 0 consumed 717.5 KB.
+To estimate the memory consumption of a particular object, use 
`SizeEstimator`'s `estimate` method
+This is useful for experimenting with different data layouts to trim memory 
usage, as well as
+determining the amount of space a broadcast variable will occupy on each 
executor heap.
 
 ## Tuning Data Structures
 


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