diff --git a/.sbtopts b/.sbtopts
deleted file mode 100644
index 9afbdca6db1c7..0000000000000
--- a/.sbtopts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-# contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
-# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-# the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
--J-Xmx4G
--J-Xss4m
diff --git a/build/sbt b/build/sbt
index 475dfd3b20b43..ae9ca93fc9ca9 100755
--- a/build/sbt
+++ b/build/sbt
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ realpath () {
 declare -r noshare_opts="-Dsbt.global.base=project/.sbtboot -Dsbt.boot.directory=project/.boot -Dsbt.ivy.home=project/.ivy"
 declare -r sbt_opts_file=".sbtopts"
 declare -r etc_sbt_opts_file="/etc/sbt/sbtopts"
+declare -r default_sbt_opts="-Xss4m"
 
 usage() {
  cat <<EOM
diff --git a/build/sbt-launch-lib.bash b/build/sbt-launch-lib.bash
index 1d79989f3c3c3..8fb6672bddc4d 100755
--- a/build/sbt-launch-lib.bash
+++ b/build/sbt-launch-lib.bash
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ declare -a java_args
 declare -a scalac_args
 declare -a sbt_commands
 declare -a maven_profiles
-declare sbt_default_mem=2048
+declare sbt_default_mem=4096
 
 if test -x "$JAVA_HOME/bin/java"; then
     echo -e "Using $JAVA_HOME as default JAVA_HOME."