Github user mridulm commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/894#issuecomment-45317843
I meant, I was expecting the default 3xx mb to be overhead : while this
ended up making it 2.5gig or so : causing master to fail due to inadequate
memory to run the job.
We should not try to compute overhead based on available memory.
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