I know this has been discussed in tickets and here previously. I just wanted to comment on it because of the upcoming 0.6 release.
In my environment I patch Cassandra to prevent the OOM errors from malformed incoming Thrift data, which as everyone knows let anyone crash the servers hard with a netcat invocation. For those who don't know the story, see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-601 I think the OOM guard should be in the Cassandra releases, at least as an option. Just because Thrift doesn't give us airbags doesn't mean we don't need brakes. Ted
