From 675d7eb4f064129d275a45df4c5c43f558638422 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Patrick Wendell <pwendell@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2014 21:23:14 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Responding to Aaron's review

---
 core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/util/AkkaUtils.scala | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/util/AkkaUtils.scala b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/util/AkkaUtils.scala
index 5729334e24..7df7e3d8e5 100644
--- a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/util/AkkaUtils.scala
+++ b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/util/AkkaUtils.scala
@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ private[spark] object AkkaUtils {
     val akkaLogLifecycleEvents = conf.get("spark.akka.logLifecycleEvents", "false").toBoolean
     val lifecycleEvents = if (akkaLogLifecycleEvents) "on" else "off"
     if (!akkaLogLifecycleEvents) {
+      // As a workaround for Akka issue #3787, we coerce the "EndpointWriter" log to be silent.
+      // See: https://www.assembla.com/spaces/akka/tickets/3787#/
       Option(Logger.getLogger("akka.remote.EndpointWriter")).map(l => l.setLevel(Level.FATAL))
     }
 
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