@Arpit is right that you should do an actual calculation for the namenode heap and keep that up to date as your data grows. I know this thread is about datanodes, but since namenode was brought up multiple times, I just want to point out that Cloudera recommends 1GB per million files+blocks as a good starting point. Once you get to many millions of files and blocks, you can reduce it but start there.
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