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Compute7 min

Undocumented Databricks: more task slots, not more nodes

CPU sits at 30 percent while the node count climbs, because what ran out is task slots, not cores. SPARK_WORKER_CORES runs more task threads on the same cores. Undocumented on Databricks, and paid for in heap.

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