We had an issue with queries vs hive getting HIVE_EXCEEDED_SPLIT_BUFFERING_LIMIT (256MB)
and changing the limit through hive.max-outstanding-splits-size fixed our issue.
I believe its not so minor config and should be exposed through the documentation (I found it though the source code)
Also the word "presto" appears for the description on hive.max-splits-per-second in the official documentation which should be changed :)