Thank you, Patrick I am planning to switch to 1.0 now.
By the way of feedback - I used Andrew's suggestion and found that it does exactly that - sets Executor JVM heap - and nothing else. Workers have already been started and when the shell starts, it is now able to control Executor JVM heap. Thank you again, Oleg On 6 June 2014 18:05, Patrick Wendell <pwend...@gmail.com> wrote: > In 1.0+ you can just pass the --executor-memory flag to ./bin/spark-shell. > > On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 12:32 AM, Oleg Proudnikov > <oleg.proudni...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thank you, Hassan! > > > > > > On 6 June 2014 03:23, hassan <hellfire...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> just use -Dspark.executor.memory= > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> View this message in context: > >> > http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/Setting-executor-memory-when-using-spark-shell-tp7082p7103.html > >> Sent from the Apache Spark User List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Kind regards, > > > > Oleg > > > -- Kind regards, Oleg