diff --git a/contrib/ec2/bin/hbase-ec2-init-remote.sh b/contrib/ec2/bin/hbase-ec2-init-remote.sh
index c0782a4985d..2f224675fe0 100644
--- a/contrib/ec2/bin/hbase-ec2-init-remote.sh
+++ b/contrib/ec2/bin/hbase-ec2-init-remote.sh
@@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ EOF
 # Add JVM options
 cat >> $HADOOP_HOME/conf/hadoop-env.sh <<EOF
 export HADOOP_OPTS="$HADOOP_OPTS -XX:+UseCompressedOops"
+export HADOOP_NAMENODE_OPTS="$HADOOP_NAMENODE_OPTS -Xmx3000m -XX:+UseCompressedOops"                 
 EOF
 # Update classpath to include HBase jars and config
 cat >> $HADOOP_HOME/conf/hadoop-env.sh <<EOF