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help undersanding RAM utilization graph

meshko
Visitor

I am trying to understand the following graph databricks is showing me and failing:

databricks.png

What is that constant lightly shaded area close to 138GB? It is not explained in the "Usage type" legend. The job is running completely on the driver node, not utilizing any of the Spark worker nodes, it's just a Python script. I know that memory usage of ~138GB is real because job was failing on a 128GB driver node and seems to be happy on 256GB driver.

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koji_kawamura
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee

Hi @meshko 

The light-shaded area represents the total available RAM size. The tooltip shows it when you hover over a mouse.

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So why does the totail available RAM want to go above 128GB if the graph never gets above 90GB?

koji_kawamura
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee

@meshko , I think you are seeing RAM uses of a 128GB RAM instance. Is that correct? Could you confirm the instance type of your cluster node? Although the screenshot you attached in the first message seemed to have reached almost 139GB, I guess you will see about 128GB in total in the tooltip if it is a 128GB RAM instance.

I just tested a single 128GB RAM instance, and the RAM chart shows this.

koji_kawamura_0-1742278379561.png

 

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