getting following exception while running spark job in client mode

[#1]

16/06/15 06:52:45 ERROR SparkContext: Error initializing SparkContext.
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: System memory 257949696 must be at least 4.718592E8. Please use a larger heap size.
at org.apache.spark.memory.UnifiedMemoryManager$.getMaxMemory(UnifiedMemoryManager.scala:193)
at org.apache.spark.memory.UnifiedMemoryManager$.apply(UnifiedMemoryManager.scala:175)
at org.apache.spark.SparkEnv$.create(SparkEnv.scala:354)
at org.apache.spark.SparkEnv$.createDriverEnv(SparkEnv.scala:193)
at org.apache.spark.SparkContext.createSparkEnv(SparkContext.scala:288)
at org.apache.spark.SparkContext.<init>(SparkContext.scala:457)
at com.example.project.SimpleApp$.main(SimpleApp.scala:16)
at com.example.project.SimpleApp.main(SimpleApp.scala)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.org$apache$spark$deploy$SparkSubmit$runMain(SparkSubmit.scala:731)
at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.doRunMain$1(SparkSubmit.scala:181)
at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.submit(SparkSubmit.scala:206)
at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.main(SparkSubmit.scala:121)
at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit.main(SparkSubmit.scala)
16/06/15 06:52:45 INFO SparkContext: Successfully stopped SparkContext
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: System memory 257949696 must be at least 4.718592E8. Please use a larger heap size.
at org.apache.spark.memory.UnifiedMemoryManager$.getMaxMemory(UnifiedMemoryManager.scala:193)
at org.apache.spark.memory.UnifiedMemoryManager$.apply(UnifiedMemoryManager.scala:175)
at org.apache.spark.SparkEnv$.create(SparkEnv.scala:354)
at org.apache.spark.SparkEnv$.createDriverEnv(SparkEnv.scala:193)
at org.apache.spark.SparkContext.createSparkEnv(SparkContext.scala:288)
at org.apache.spark.SparkContext.<init>(SparkContext.scala:457)
at com.example.project.SimpleApp$.main(SimpleApp.scala:16)
at com.example.project.SimpleApp.main(SimpleApp.scala)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.org$apache$spark$deploy$SparkSubmit$runMain(SparkSubmit.scala:731)
at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.doRunMain$1(SparkSubmit.scala:181)
at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.submit(SparkSubmit.scala:206)
at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.main(SparkSubmit.scala:121)
at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit.main(SparkSubmit.scala)

[#2 · Accepted solution]

it seems your spark driver is running with very small heap size, please try increasing the java.driver memory and see if it helps.

[#3]

@a kumar

You need to increase the driver memory try from 1G at least. use below parameter while submitting the job.

 --driver-memory 1g

[#4]

increase heap space to be at least 471 MB. try to set VM options to -Xmx512m.