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Known Issues and Limitations

You might run into some known issues while using Cloudera Machine Learning.

DSE-12404 NFS performance issues on AWS EFS

CML uses NFS as the filesystem for storing application and user data. NFS performance may be much slower than expected in situations where a data scientist writes a very large number (typically in the thousands) of small files. Example tasks include: using git clone to clone a very large source repository (such as TensorFlow), or using pip to install a Python package that includes JavaScript code (such as plotly). Reduced performance is particularly common with CML on AWS (which uses EFS), but it may be seen in other environments.

DSE-12065: Disable file upload and download

You cannot disable file upload and download when using the Jupyter Notebook.

DSE-10408: Insufficient CPU or Memory

If you schedule a session, job, experiment, or model, and the operation stalls in the scheduling state without an error message, the cause may be insufficient CPU and/or memory. An engine requires more than 0.3 CPU and 384 MB memory. Therefore, try the operation again with a higher setting for CPU and memory, sufficient to support system requirements and the needs of your workload.

DSE-8834: Remove Workspace operation fails

Remove Workspace operation fails if workspace creation is still in progress.

DSE-8407: CML does not support modifying CPU/GPU scaling limits on provisioned ML workspaces

When provisioning a workspace, CML currently supports a maximum of 30 nodes of each type: CPUs and GPUs. Currently, CML does not provide a way to increase this limit for existing workspaces.

Workaround:
  1. Log in to the CDP web interface at https://console.us-west-1.cdp.cloudera.com using your corporate credentials or any other credentials that you received from your CDP administrator.
  2. Click ML Workspaces.
  3. Select the workspace whose limits you want to modify and go to its Details page.
  4. Copy the Liftie Cluster ID of the workspace. It should be of the format, liftie-abcdefgh.
  5. Login to the AWS EC2 console, and click Auto Scaling Groups.
  6. Paste the Liftie Cluster ID in the search filter box and press enter.
  7. Click on the auto-scaling group that has a name like: liftie-abcdefgh-ml-pqrstuv-xyz-cpu-workers-0-NodeGroup. Especially note the 'cpu-workers' in the middle of the string.
  8. On the Details page of this auto-scaling group, click Edit.
  9. Set Max capacity to the desired value and click Save.

Note that CML does not support lowering the maximum instances of an auto scaling group due to certain limitations in AWS.

SSO does not work if the first user to access an ML workspace is not a Site Admin

Problem: If a user assigned the MLUser role is the first user, the web application will display an error.

Workaround: Any user assigned the MLAdmin role must always be the first user to access an ML workspace.

API does not enforce a maximum number of nodes for ML workspaces

Problem: When the API is used to provision new ML workspaces, it does not enforce an upper limit on the autoscale range.

MLX-637, MLX-638: Downscaling ML workspace nodes does not work as expected

Problem: Downscaling nodes does not work as seamlessly as expected due to a lack of Bin Packing on the Spark default scheduler, and because dynamic allocation is not currently enabled. As a result, currently infrastructure pods, Spark driver/executor pods, and session pods are tagged as non-evictable using the cluster-autoscaler.kubernetes.io/safe-to-evict: "false" annotation.

MLX-698: ML Workspaces do not load on Firefox

Problem: CML uses LetsEncrypt for TLS certificates which enable OCSP stapling by default. However, by default, Firefox refuses to load HTTPS sites which use OCSP-enabled certificates, which includes ML workspaces.

Workaround: It is possible to override this behavior in Firefox by setting the security.ssl.enable_ocsp_must_staple to false. Or, you can use Google Chrome which does not face this issue.