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Exception in thread "main" org.apache.spark.sql.AnalysisException: Cannot modify the value of a Spark config: spark.executor.memory;

sarvesh
Contributor III

I am trying to read a 16mb excel file and I was getting a gc overhead limit exceeded error to resolve that i tried to increase my executor memory with,

spark.conf.set("spark.executor.memory", "8g")

but i got the following stack :

Using Spark's default log4j profile: org/apache/spark/log4j-defaults.properties

Exception in thread "main" org.apache.spark.sql.AnalysisException: Cannot modify the value of a Spark config: spark.executor.memory;

at org.apache.spark.sql.RuntimeConfig.requireNonStaticConf(RuntimeConfig.scala:158)

at org.apache.spark.sql.RuntimeConfig.set(RuntimeConfig.scala:42)

at com.sundogsoftware.spark.spaceTrim.trimmer$.delayedEndpoint$com$sundogsoftware$spark$spaceTrim$trimmer$1(trimmer.scala:29)

at com.sundogsoftware.spark.spaceTrim.trimmer$delayedInit$body.apply(trimmer.scala:9)

at scala.Function0.apply$mcV$sp(Function0.scala:39)

at scala.Function0.apply$mcV$sp$(Function0.scala:39)

at scala.runtime.AbstractFunction0.apply$mcV$sp(AbstractFunction0.scala:17)

at scala.App.$anonfun$main$1$adapted(App.scala:80)

at scala.collection.immutable.List.foreach(List.scala:431)

at scala.App.main(App.scala:80)

at scala.App.main$(App.scala:78)

at com.sundogsoftware.spark.spaceTrim.trimmer$.main(trimmer.scala:9)

at com.sundogsoftware.spark.spaceTrim.trimmer.main(trimmer.scala)

my code :-

val spark = SparkSession

.builder

.appName("schemaTest")

.master("local[*]")

.getOrCreate()

spark.conf.set("spark.executor.memory", "8g")

val df = spark.read

.format("com.crealytics.spark.excel").

option("header", "true").

option("inferSchema", "false").

option("treatEmptyValuesAsNulls", "false").

option("addColorColumns", "False").

load("data/12file.xlsx")

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