You can add memory in your command make sure given memory available on your executor
./bin/spark-submit \ --class org.apache.spark.examples.SparkPi \ --master spark://207.184.161.138:7077 \ --executor-memory 20G \ --total-executor-cores 100 \ /path/to/examples.jar \ 1000 https://spark.apache.org/docs/1.1.0/submitting-applications.html Also try to avoid function need memory like collect etc. Regards, Vaquar khan On Jun 4, 2017 5:46 AM, "Abdulfattah Safa" <fattah.s...@gmail.com> wrote: I'm working on Spark with Standalone Cluster mode. I need to increase the Driver Memory as I got OOM in t he driver thread. If found that when setting the Driver Memory to > Executor Memory, the submitted job is stuck at Submitted in the driver and the application never starts.
