try "set hive.mapred.local.mem=7000" or add it to hive-site.xml instead of modifying hive-env.sh
HADOOP_HEAPSIZE is not in use. Should fix documentation of it. Thanks, Navis 2014-01-31 Avrilia Floratou <avrilia.flora...@gmail.com>: > Hi, > I'm running hive 0.12 on yarn and I'm trying to convert a common join into > a map join. My map join fails > and from the logs I can see that the memory limit is very low: > > Starting to launch local task to process map join; maximum memory = > 514523136 > > How can I increase the maximum memory? > I've set the HADOOP_HEAP_SIZE at 7GB in hadoop-env.sh and hive-env.sh but > that didn't help. > Also the nodemanager runs with 7GB heap size. > > Is there anything else I can do to increase this value? > > Thanks, > Avrilia >