Github user paul-rogers commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/1023#discussion_r159131381
--- Diff: pom.xml ---
@@ -442,7 +442,7 @@
-Dorg.apache.drill.exec.server.Drillbit.system_options="org.apache.drill.exec.compile.ClassTransformer.scalar_replacement=on"
-Ddrill.test.query.printing.silent=true
-Ddrill.catastrophic_to_standard_out=true
- -XX:MaxPermSize=512M -XX:MaxDirectMemorySize=3072M
+ -XX:MaxPermSize=512M -XX:MaxDirectMemorySize=4096M
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Why not just retire the test. As explained above, no vector should ever
allocate 2 GB unless we do some fixes to the Netty allocator. (Such a large
vector will likely introduce issues in the network layer, but we don't have any
user JIRAs to confirm this is, indeed, a problem.)
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