diff --git a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/RDD.scala b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/RDD.scala
index 214f22bc5b603..73092993ca531 100644
--- a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/RDD.scala
+++ b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/RDD.scala
@@ -787,6 +787,18 @@ abstract class RDD[T: ClassTag](
     sc.runJob(this, (iter: Iterator[T]) => cleanF(iter))
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Process all of the elements in this RDD, and take the first num elements of the RDD.
+   */
+  def processAllAndTake (num: Int): Array[T] = {
+    val buf = new ArrayBuffer[T]
+    val results = sc.runJob(this, (iter: Iterator[T]) => iter.toArray)
+    for (partition <- results; data <- partition if buf.size <= num){
+      buf += data
+    }
+    buf.toArray
+  }
+
   /**
    * Return an array that contains all of the elements in this RDD.
    */
diff --git a/streaming/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/dstream/DStream.scala b/streaming/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/dstream/DStream.scala
index dbf1ebbaf653a..86e0de504de11 100644
--- a/streaming/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/dstream/DStream.scala
+++ b/streaming/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/dstream/DStream.scala
@@ -618,6 +618,20 @@ abstract class DStream[T: ClassTag] (
     new ForEachDStream(this, context.sparkContext.clean(foreachFunc)).register()
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Print the first specified number elements of each RDD in this DStream.
+   */
+  def processAllAndPrintFirst(num: Int) {
+    def foreachFunc = (rdd: RDD[T], time: Time) => {
+      val first11 = rdd.processAllAndTake(num)
+      println ("-------------------------------------------")
+      println ("Time: " + time)
+      println ("-------------------------------------------")
+      first11.take(num).foreach(println)
+    }
+    new ForEachDStream(this, context.sparkContext.clean(foreachFunc)).register()
+  }
+
   /**
    * Return a new DStream in which each RDD contains all the elements in seen in a
    * sliding window of time over this DStream. The new DStream generates RDDs with