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gbetancurm
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6 months ago
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Livy session becomes dead when reading large file in Fabric Notebook

Hi everyone, I'm running a notebook in Microsoft Fabric where I read a large file, around 2GB. The notebook takes a long time to execute, and eventually I receive the following error: InvalidHttpR...
  • deborshi_nag's avatar
    6 months ago

    Hello gbetancurm 

     

    It is probably a driver out-of-memory issue, which would happen if you're using Pandas dataframe instead of Spark. Pandas is not distributed by design, so none of the executors are used and the driver gets overloaded. 

     

    You can start by looking at the Spark application details > Logs > Driver - you should find additional details on why the application failed.