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Nikos83
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startup times of the Spark cluster in notebooks

Dear Community,

Since last Monday, we have noticed a significant delay in the startup times of the Spark cluster in our notebooks. I have conducted two tests to investigate the issue:

  1. Notebook without a custom package: The startup time has increased to over 2 minutes, whereas it used to be very fast (maximum 8 seconds).
  2. Notebook using our custom package: The startup time has increased to over 5 minutes.

We are using Runtime 1.3 and have not made any changes to the default settings. Additionally, we are using the trial version with F64 capacity.

Do you recognize this issue, and is there anything that can be done to resolve it?

Looking forward to your response.

Best regards,

 

Niek

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Nikos83
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I found the root cause: we have configured private endpoints

I hope this is a temporary limitation. Does anyone know?

 

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Anonymous
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Hi @Nikos83,

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Anonymous
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Hi @Nikos83 

I wanted to follow up since we haven't heard back from you regarding our last response. We hope your issue has been resolved.
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Anonymous
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Hi @Nikos83 

 

Thanks for reaching out in Microsoft Community Forum

 

To achieve this issue, following step will be helpful

  1. please check the cluster settings in autoscaling if enabled, please disable it

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Anonymous
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Hi @Nikos83 

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If the community member's answer your query, please mark it as "Accept as Solution" and select "Yes" if it was helpful.
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Srisakthi
Super User
Super User

Hi @Nikos83 ,

 

Yes, private endpoint delay session start time. we have also faced simialr issue.

Are you connecting to data sources which is behind firewall? Because of this reason youhave created private endpoints?

 

Regards,

Srisakthi

Yes, that's the main reason. We tried using Trusted Workspace Access, but we couldn't get it to work

Hi @Nikos83 ,

 

If possible can you share me the details of error while using TrustedWorkspace ?

 

Regards,

Srisakthi

Nikos83
Frequent Visitor

I hope this is a temporary limitation. Does anyone know?

Nikos83
Frequent Visitor

Nikos83_0-1734516773419.png

I found the root cause: we have configured private endpoints

I hope this is a temporary limitation. Does anyone know?

 

Srisakthi
Super User
Super User

Hi @Nikos83 ,

 

Starter pool will start instantly. If you have added any extra spark properties then session start time will be delayed.

Custom pool will take 3 mins to start and if you have added spark properties then again your session start time will be delayed further.

Use custom spark pool with high concurrency session to achieve better resource utilization when same session needs to be shared between users

 

Are you using starter pool or custom pool?

 

Regards,

Srisakthi

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