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Generating Flame Graphs for Apache Spark

Flame graphs are a nifty debugging tool to determine where CPU time is being spent. Using the Java Flight recorder, you can do this for Java processes without adding significant runtime overhead.

When are flame graphs useful?

Shivaram Venkataraman and I have found these flame recordings to be useful for diagnosing coarse-grained performance problems. We started using them at the suggestion of Josh Rosen, who quickly made one for the Spark scheduler when we were talking to him about why the scheduler caps out at a throughput of a few thousand tasks per second. Josh generated a graph similar to the one below, which illustrates that a significant amount of time is spent in serialization (if you click in the top right hand corner and search for "serialize", you can see that 78.6% of the sampled CPU time was spent in serialization). We used this insight to spee

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cocoalabs / gist:2fb7dc2199b0d4bf160364b8e557eb66
Created August 15, 2016 21:50
Color Terminal for bash/zsh etc..
man() {
env \
LESS_TERMCAP_mb=$(printf "\e[1;31m") \
LESS_TERMCAP_md=$(printf "\e[1;31m") \
LESS_TERMCAP_me=$(printf "\e[0m") \
LESS_TERMCAP_se=$(printf "\e[0m") \
LESS_TERMCAP_so=$(printf "\e[1;44;33m") \
LESS_TERMCAP_ue=$(printf "\e[0m") \
LESS_TERMCAP_us=$(printf "\e[1;32m") \
man "$@"
@Mistobaan
Mistobaan / TENSORFLOW_DEBUG.md
Last active January 2, 2026 11:17
Tensorflow Internals Debugging Techniques

Machine Setup August 2016

Linux Ubuntu 2016.

  • 1080 GTX
  • SDK 8.0
  • CuDNN 5.1

ENABLE Core dumps

ulimit -c unlimited
@jarutis
jarutis / tf_serving.sh
Created October 24, 2016 18:37
Install Tensorflow Serving on Centos 7 (CPU)
sudo su
# Java
yum -y install java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel
# Build Esentials (minimal)
yum -y install gcc gcc-c++ kernel-devel make automake autoconf swig git unzip libtool binutils
# Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) (for pip, zeromq3)
yum -y install epel-release
@marcan
marcan / linux.sh
Last active July 26, 2025 08:39
Linux kernel initialization, translated to bash
#!/boot/bzImage
# Linux kernel userspace initialization code, translated to bash
# (Minus floppy disk handling, because seriously, it's 2017.)
# Not 100% accurate, but gives you a good idea of how kernel init works
# GPLv2, Copyright 2017 Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st>
# Based on Linux 4.10-rc2.
# Note: pretend chroot is a builtin and affects the current process
# Note: kernel actually uses major/minor device numbers instead of device name
@teamdandelion
teamdandelion / labels_1024.tsv
Last active February 6, 2024 08:33
TensorBoard: TF Dev Summit Tutorial
We can make this file beautiful and searchable if this error is corrected: No tabs found in this TSV file in line 0.
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@csswizardry
csswizardry / README.md
Last active April 15, 2026 19:43
Vim without NERD tree or CtrlP

Vim without NERD tree or CtrlP

I used to use NERD tree for quite a while, then switched to CtrlP for something a little more lightweight. My setup now includes zero file browser or tree view, and instead uses native Vim fuzzy search and auto-directory switching.

Fuzzy Search

There is a super sweet feature in Vim whereby you can fuzzy find your files using **/*, e.g.:

:vs **/*<partial file name><Tab>
@aparrish
aparrish / spacy_intro.ipynb
Last active August 18, 2026 06:07
NLP Concepts with spaCy. Code examples released under CC0 https://creativecommons.org/choose/zero/, other text released under CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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aparrish / understanding-word-vectors.ipynb
Last active August 24, 2026 06:58
Understanding word vectors: A tutorial for "Reading and Writing Electronic Text," a class I teach at ITP. (Python 2.7) Code examples released under CC0 https://creativecommons.org/choose/zero/, other text released under CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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max-mapper / bibtex.png
Last active September 9, 2026 17:52
How to make a scientific looking PDF from markdown (with bibliography)
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