This is a bug of zeppelin. spark.driver.memory won't take effect. As for now it isn't passed to spark through -conf parameter. See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZEPPELIN-1263 The workaround is to specify SPARK_DRIVER_MEMORY in interpreter setting page.
Best Regard, Jeff Zhang From: RUSHIKESH RAUT <rushikeshraut...@gmail.com<mailto:rushikeshraut...@gmail.com>> Reply-To: "users@zeppelin.apache.org<mailto:users@zeppelin.apache.org>" <users@zeppelin.apache.org<mailto:users@zeppelin.apache.org>> Date: Sunday, March 26, 2017 at 5:03 PM To: "users@zeppelin.apache.org<mailto:users@zeppelin.apache.org>" <users@zeppelin.apache.org<mailto:users@zeppelin.apache.org>> Subject: Re: Zeppelin out of memory issue - (GC overhead limit exceeded) ZEPPELIN_INTP_JAVA_OPTS
