I tried this too. It did not work because impala was allocated only 256MB of storage. However I solved the memory issue via cloudera manager.  Impala>Configuration> search memory > change from 256 MB to whatever required. This triggers the right code to be employed in the shell command for future reference. Thanks for the reply though.  ... View more

Hi @Lars Volker @Tim Armstrong    when I run the impalad- mem_limt to 1gb(6gb etc), I get the error as shown in the image.  ... View more

         I gave         impalad --mem_limit '1 gG'  as my command  ... View more

Hi,    I am unable to implement your suggestions. Pl can you elaborate. How do i increase memory of  my impala daemon from 256 MB. mem_limit at startup did not work. My queries need more memory. My computer has 10GB of Ram overall.  ... View more