Github user pwendell commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/894#issuecomment-44366137
Hey @tgravescs, one thing that could affect this is PySpark. In that case
there are python VM's spawned by the executor which could increase the total
memory used. Will YARN track the memory usage of sub-processes when deciding on
allocation limits?
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