diff --git a/BUILDING.txt b/BUILDING.txt
index 99555633a12..47aaab446b1 100644
--- a/BUILDING.txt
+++ b/BUILDING.txt
@@ -331,10 +331,10 @@ If the build process fails with an out of memory error, you should be able to fi
 it by increasing the memory used by maven which can be done via the environment
 variable MAVEN_OPTS.
 
-Here is an example setting to allocate between 256 MB and 1 GB of heap space to
+Here is an example setting to allocate between 256 and 512 MB of heap space to
 Maven
 
-export MAVEN_OPTS="-Xms256m -Xmx1g"
+export MAVEN_OPTS="-Xms256m -Xmx512m"
 
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
diff --git a/dev-support/docker/Dockerfile b/dev-support/docker/Dockerfile
index 1ced9ef7630..31ac611f65d 100644
--- a/dev-support/docker/Dockerfile
+++ b/dev-support/docker/Dockerfile
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ RUN pip install python-dateutil
 ###
 # Avoid out of memory errors in builds
 ###
-ENV MAVEN_OPTS -Xms256m -Xmx1g
+ENV MAVEN_OPTS -Xms256m -Xmx512m
 
 ###
 # Install node js tools for web UI frameowkr
diff --git a/hadoop-project/pom.xml b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
index fe38f2433f8..8aa40525e29 100644
--- a/hadoop-project/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@
 
     <!-- Plugin versions and config -->
     <maven-surefire-plugin.argLine>-Xmx2048m -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError</maven-surefire-plugin.argLine>
-    <maven-surefire-plugin.version>2.19.1</maven-surefire-plugin.version>
+    <maven-surefire-plugin.version>2.17</maven-surefire-plugin.version>
     <maven-surefire-report-plugin.version>${maven-surefire-plugin.version}</maven-surefire-report-plugin.version>
     <maven-failsafe-plugin.version>${maven-surefire-plugin.version}</maven-failsafe-plugin.version>
 
@@ -1545,7 +1545,7 @@
             <test.build.data>${test.build.data}</test.build.data>
             <test.build.webapps>${test.build.webapps}</test.build.webapps>
             <test.cache.data>${test.cache.data}</test.cache.data>
-            <test.build.classes>${project.build.directory}/test-classes</test.build.classes>
+            <test.build.classes>${test.build.classes}</test.build.classes>
 
             <java.net.preferIPv4Stack>true</java.net.preferIPv4Stack>
             <java.security.krb5.conf>${project.build.directory}/test-classes/krb5.conf</java.security.krb5.conf>