Github user aarondav commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/incubator-spark/pull/599#discussion_r9780203 A slightly confusing point is that the driver is in the same memory space as the shell, and we're really just controlling the memory of the shell process itself. I think the wording "the memory used by the spark shell and driver" may be slightly clearer in this sense.
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