GitHub user CodingCat opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/incubator-spark/pull/599
[SPARK-1090] improvement on spark_shell (help information, configure memory) spark-shell should print help information about parameters and should allow user to configure exe memory there is no document about hot to set --cores/-c in spark-shell and also users should be able to set executor memory through command line options In this PR I also check the format of the options passed by the user You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/apache/incubator-spark spark_shell_improve Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/incubator-spark/pull/599.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #599 ---- commit 2039fd77cd1e70ca7261c5da5fcf5340f28069e0 Author: CodingCat <zhunans...@gmail.com> Date: 2014-02-14T02:03:34Z improvement on spark_shell (help information, configure memory) ----