Re: Strange OOM when doing "list" in CLI

2012-01-04 Thread Maxim Potekhin
Ed, thanks for a dose of common sense, I should have thunk about it. In fact, I only have 2 columns in that one particular CF, but one of these can get really fat (for a good reason). So the CLI just plain runs out of memory when pulling the default 100 rows (with a little help from various o

Re: Strange OOM when doing "list" in CLI

2012-01-03 Thread Edward Capriolo
What you are probably running into is that list from the cli can bring all the columns of a key into memory. I have counters using composite keys and about 1k columns causes this to happen. We should have some paging support with list. On Tuesday, January 3, 2012, Maxim Potekhin wrote: > I came b

Strange OOM when doing "list" in CLI

2012-01-03 Thread Maxim Potekhin
I came back from Xmas vacation only to see that what always was an innocuous procedure in CLI now reliably results in OOM -- does anyone have ideas why? It never happened before. Version of Cassandra is 0.8.8. 2956 java -ea -javaagent:/home/cassandra/cassandra/bin/../lib/jamm-0.2.2.jar -XX:+