Spark Streaming Error with snappy compression codec - apache-spark

Question

I am getting the following exception on running my spark streaming job.
The same job has been running fine since long and when I added two new machines to my cluster I see the job failing with the following exception.
16/02/22 19:23:01 ERROR Executor: Exception in task 2.0 in stage 4229.0 (TID 22594)
java.io.IOException: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at org.apache.spark.util.Utils$.tryOrIOException(Utils.scala:1257)
at org.apache.spark.broadcast.TorrentBroadcast.readBroadcastBlock(TorrentBroadcast.scala:165)
at org.apache.spark.broadcast.TorrentBroadcast._value$lzycompute(TorrentBroadcast.scala:64)
at org.apache.spark.broadcast.TorrentBroadcast._value(TorrentBroadcast.scala:64)
at org.apache.spark.broadcast.TorrentBroadcast.getValue(TorrentBroadcast.scala:88)
at org.apache.spark.broadcast.Broadcast.value(Broadcast.scala:70)
at org.apache.spark.scheduler.ResultTask.runTask(ResultTask.scala:59)
at org.apache.spark.scheduler.Task.run(Task.scala:70)
at org.apache.spark.executor.Executor$TaskRunner.run(Executor.scala:213)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744)
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:408)
at org.apache.spark.io.CompressionCodec$.createCodec(CompressionCodec.scala:68)
at org.apache.spark.io.CompressionCodec$.createCodec(CompressionCodec.scala:60)
at org.apache.spark.broadcast.TorrentBroadcast.org$apache$spark$broadcast$TorrentBroadcast$$setConf(TorrentBroadcast.scala:73)
at org.apache.spark.broadcast.TorrentBroadcast$$anonfun$readBroadcastBlock$1.apply(TorrentBroadcast.scala:167)
at org.apache.spark.util.Utils$.tryOrIOException(Utils.scala:1254)
... 11 more
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
at org.apache.spark.io.SnappyCompressionCodec.<init>(CompressionCodec.scala:152)
... 20 more
On changing the default compression codec which is snappy to lzf the errors are gone !!
How can I fix this using snappy as the codec ? Is there any downside of using lzf as snappy is the default codec that ships with spark ?
Spark Version is 1.4.0