diff --git a/contrib/ec2/bin/hbase-ec2-init-remote.sh b/contrib/ec2/bin/hbase-ec2-init-remote.sh
index 8e079bc482d..4589356d4d8 100644
--- a/contrib/ec2/bin/hbase-ec2-init-remote.sh
+++ b/contrib/ec2/bin/hbase-ec2-init-remote.sh
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ cp $HADOOP_HOME/conf/mapred-site.xml $HBASE_HOME/conf/mapred-site.xml
 # Override JVM options
 cat >> $HBASE_HOME/conf/hbase-env.sh <<EOF
 export HBASE_MASTER_OPTS="-Xmx1000m -XX:+UseCompressedOops -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+DoEscapeAnalysis -XX:+AggressiveOpts -verbose:gc -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+PrintGCDateStamps -Xloggc:/mnt/hbase/logs/hbase-master-gc.log"
-export HBASE_REGIONSERVER_OPTS="-Xmx2000m -XX:+UseCompressedOops -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=88 -XX:NewSize=64m -XX:MaxNewSize=64m -XX:+DoEscapeAnalysis -XX:+AggressiveOpts -verbose:gc -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+PrintGCDateStamps -Xloggc:/mnt/hbase/logs/hbase-regionserver-gc.log"
+export HBASE_REGIONSERVER_OPTS="-Xmx2000m -XX:+UseCompressedOops -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=88 -XX:NewSize=128m -XX:MaxNewSize=128m -XX:+DoEscapeAnalysis -XX:+AggressiveOpts -verbose:gc -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+PrintGCDateStamps -Xloggc:/mnt/hbase/logs/hbase-regionserver-gc.log"
 EOF
 # Configure log4j
 sed -i -e 's/hadoop.hbase=DEBUG/hadoop.hbase=INFO/g' \