Re: cassandra not responding, log full of gc invocations

2013-09-18 Thread David McNelis
It is a little more involved than just changing the heap size. Every cluster is different, so there isn't much of a set formula. Some areas to look into, though: **Caveat, we're still running in the 1.2 branch and 2.0 has some differences in what is on versus off heap memory usage, but the basic

cassandra not responding, log full of gc invocations

2013-09-18 Thread Alexander Shutyaev
Hi all! We have a problem with cassandra 2.0. We have installed cassandra from datastax community respository. We haven't changed any java options from the default ones. De-facto Xmx is 1GB. Recently we have encountered a couple of cases when cassandra stopped responding and the log was showing so