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higgy7
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Advocate II

Spark Session Start Up Time

My spark session startup times are now taking 10-15 minutes to start even when i am using the starter pool. Now i did go in and reduce the number of dynamically allocated executors. But even when i put this back to default the sessions is taking an age to begin. Is this normally behaviour? I thought the starter pool should begin in seconds.

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wardy912
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Super User

Hi @higgy7 

 

 I'm currently having spark issues to, there is an active incident that is affecting start times

 

Microsoft Fabric Known Issues

 

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wardy912
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Super User

I believe so, as we are using starter pools and have been experiencing slow start ups since yesterday with no other explanation.

wardy912
Super User
Super User

Hi @higgy7 

 

 I'm currently having spark issues to, there is an active incident that is affecting start times

 

Microsoft Fabric Known Issues

 

--------------------------------

I hope this helps, please give kudos and mark as solved if it does!

 

Connect with me on LinkedIn.

Subscribe to my YouTube channel for Fabric/Power Platform related content!

 

Thanks, does this apply to the default starter pool as well though?

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