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- Finally, if you get errors while running your jobs, look at the slave's logs
for that job using the Mesos web UI (`http://<master-hostname>:8080`).
+# Configuration
+
+You can edit `/root/spark/conf/spark-env.sh` on each machine to set Spark configuration options, such
+as JVM options and, most crucially, the amount of memory to use per machine (`SPARK_MEM`).
+This file needs to be copied to **every machine** to reflect the change. The easiest way to do this
+is to use a script we provide called `copy-dir`. First edit your `spark-env.sh` file on the master,
+then run `~/mesos-ec2/copy-dir /root/spark/conf` to RSYNC it to all the workers.
+
+The [configuration guide]({{HOME_PATH}}configuration.html) describes the available configuration options.
+
# Terminating a Cluster
***Note that there is no way to recover data on EC2 nodes after shutting