Github user brndnmtthws commented on the pull request:

    https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/2401#issuecomment-55903580
  
    That implies that as you grow the heap, you're not adding threads (or other 
things that use off-heap memory).  I'm not familiar with Spark's execution 
model, but I would assume that as you scale up, the workers will need more 
threads to serve cache requests and what have you.


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