Github user witgo commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1387#issuecomment-48841151 @srowen [Executor.scala#L253](https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/executor/Executor.scala#L253) handle exceptions. But the memory overflow does not seem to be handled correctly.
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