Re: Impala resident memory

2018-05-18 Thread Fawze Abujaber
Hi Tim, Thanks for you response and really appreciate this. Please see my response inline. On Fri, 18 May 2018 at 19:58 Tim Armstrong wrote: > It depends if it's backend or JVM memory. Generally the backend memory > will shrink down when queries aren't executing, but

Re: Impala resident memory

2018-05-18 Thread Tim Armstrong
It depends if it's backend or JVM memory. Generally the backend memory will shrink down when queries aren't executing, but may still occupy a few GB. If it's JVM memory, then if the memory is actually unused then its really up to the JVM to GC. It's possible that the memory is actually in use