diff --git a/python/pyspark/tests/test_worker.py b/python/pyspark/tests/test_worker.py
index a4f108f18e17..5193cfeceac8 100644
--- a/python/pyspark/tests/test_worker.py
+++ b/python/pyspark/tests/test_worker.py
@@ -19,6 +19,12 @@
 import tempfile
 import threading
 import time
+import unittest
+has_resource_module = True
+try:
+    import resource
+except ImportError:
+    has_resource_module = False
 
 from py4j.protocol import Py4JJavaError
 
@@ -155,6 +161,28 @@ def test_reuse_worker_of_parallelize_xrange(self):
             self.assertTrue(pid in previous_pids)
 
 
+@unittest.skipIf(
+    not has_resource_module,
+    "Memory limit feature in Python worker is dependent on "
+    "Python's 'resource' module; however, not found.")
+class WorkerMemoryTest(PySparkTestCase):
+
+    def test_memory_limit(self):
+        self.sc._conf.set("spark.executor.pyspark.memory", "1m")
+        rdd = self.sc.parallelize(xrange(1), 1)
+
+        def getrlimit():
+            import resource
+            return resource.getrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_AS)
+
+        actual = rdd.map(lambda _: getrlimit()).collect()
+        self.assertTrue(len(actual) == 1)
+        self.assertTrue(len(actual[0]) == 2)
+        [(soft_limit, hard_limit)] = actual
+        self.assertEqual(soft_limit, 1024 * 1024)
+        self.assertEqual(hard_limit, 1024 * 1024)
+
+
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     import unittest
     from pyspark.tests.test_worker import *