Re: cassandra memory is huge

2011-02-08 Thread Aaron Morton
the JVM heap size is set in conf/cassandra-env.shIf not set it will use half the system memory. AaronOn 09 Feb, 2011,at 01:33 PM, Joshua Partogi wrote:Do you have loads of data? 1GB is quite reasonable knowing that 8GB is the recommended RAM size http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/CassandraHardware

Re: cassandra memory is huge

2011-02-08 Thread Joshua Partogi
Do you have loads of data? 1GB is quite reasonable knowing that 8GB is the recommended RAM size http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/CassandraHardware Kind regards, Joshua. On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Blaze Dowis wrote: > Why is it that when I start cassandra, it is taking up to 1G of memory? a

cassandra memory is huge

2011-02-08 Thread Blaze Dowis
Why is it that when I start cassandra, it is taking up to 1G of memory? and how can I lessen this? here is a small portion of the startup dump. INFO 12:33:45,539 Creating new commitlog segment /var/lib/cassandra/commitlog/CommitLog-1297208025539.log INFO 12:34:00,034 switching in a fresh Memt