As it says in the documentation: Because this option results in increased resource utilization on a single host, it could cause problems due to contention with other Impala statements or high resource usage. Symptoms could include queries running slowly, exceeding the memory limit, or appearing to hang. Use it only in a single-user development/test environment; do not use it in a production environment or in a cluster with a high-concurrency or high-volume or performance-critical workload.
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