Gotcha. No i don't see anything particularly interesting in the log. Do i need to turn on higher logging in log4j?
here it is after i killed the client: INFO [main] 2010-04-21 14:25:52,166 DatabaseDescriptor.java (line 229) Auto DiskAccessMode determined to be standard INFO [main] 2010-04-21 14:25:52,416 SystemTable.java (line 139) Saved Token not found. Using LXzz63jDw6A1wZGz INFO [main] 2010-04-21 14:25:52,416 SystemTable.java (line 145) Saved ClusterName not found. Using NGram Cluster INFO [main] 2010-04-21 14:25:52,416 CommitLogSegment.java (line 50) Creating new commitlog segment /var/lib/cassandra/commitlog\CommitLog-1271885152416.log INFO [main] 2010-04-21 14:25:52,448 StorageService.java (line 317) Starting up server gossip INFO [main] 2010-04-21 14:25:52,495 CassandraDaemon.java (line 108) Binding thrift service to localhost/127.0.0.1:9160 INFO [main] 2010-04-21 14:25:52,495 CassandraDaemon.java (line 148) Cassandra starting up... INFO [COMMIT-LOG-WRITER] 2010-04-21 14:30:44,248 CommitLogSegment.java (line 50) Creating new commitlog segment /var/lib/cassandra/commitlog\CommitLog-1271885444248.log INFO [COMMIT-LOG-WRITER] 2010-04-21 14:34:37,267 CommitLogSegment.java (line 50) Creating new commitlog segment /var/lib/cassandra/commitlog\CommitLog-1271885677267.log INFO [COMMIT-LOG-WRITER] 2010-04-21 14:39:08,723 CommitLogSegment.java (line 50) Creating new commitlog segment /var/lib/cassandra/commitlog\CommitLog-1271885948723.log INFO [GC inspection] 2010-04-21 14:41:48,757 GCInspector.java (line 110) GC for ConcurrentMarkSweep: 11665 ms, 34488656 reclaimed leaving 1051534024 used; max is 1174208512 INFO [GC inspection] 2010-04-21 14:42:00,913 GCInspector.java (line 110) GC for ConcurrentMarkSweep: 9219 ms, 31272728 reclaimed leaving 1053427416 used; max is 1174208512 INFO [GC inspection] 2010-04-21 14:42:13,054 GCInspector.java (line 110) GC for ConcurrentMarkSweep: 9498 ms, 31116952 reclaimed leaving 1055163128 used; max is 1174208512 INFO [GC inspection] 2010-04-21 14:42:25,195 GCInspector.java (line 110) GC for ConcurrentMarkSweep: 10318 ms, 29605880 reclaimed leaving 1056674184 used; max is 1174208512 INFO [GC inspection] 2010-04-21 14:42:37,289 GCInspector.java (line 110) GC for ConcurrentMarkSweep: 10051 ms, 28492128 reclaimed leaving 1057795048 used; max is 1174208512 INFO [GC inspection] 2010-04-21 14:42:49,398 GCInspector.java (line 110) GC for ConcurrentMarkSweep: 9904 ms, 27056840 reclaimed leaving 1059227696 used; max is 1174208512 INFO [GC inspection] 2010-04-21 14:43:01,336 GCInspector.java (line 110) GC for ConcurrentMarkSweep: 9865 ms, 25652224 reclaimed leaving 1060635120 used; max is 1174208512 INFO [GC inspection] 2010-04-21 14:43:12,977 GCInspector.java (line 110) GC for ConcurrentMarkSweep: 11515 ms, 25644312 reclaimed leaving 1060642984 used; max is 1174208512 INFO [GC inspection] 2010-04-21 14:43:23,758 GCInspector.java (line 110) GC for ConcurrentMarkSweep: 10754 ms, 25640552 reclaimed leaving 1060645864 used; max is 1174208512 INFO [GC inspection] 2010-04-21 14:43:35,446 GCInspector.java (line 110) GC for ConcurrentMarkSweep: 11602 ms, 25642952 reclaimed leaving 1060647384 used; max is 1174208512 INFO [GC inspection] 2010-04-21 14:43:47,790 GCInspector.java (line 110) GC for ConcurrentMarkSweep: 12313 ms, 25638616 reclaimed leaving 1060647272 used; max is 1174208512 On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Sonny Heer <sonnyh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> What does OOM stand for? > > out of memory > >> for a given insert the size is small (meaning the a single insert >> operation only has about a sentence of data) although as the insert >> process continues, the columns under a given row key could potentially >> grow to be large. Is that what you mean? > > yes. > > look in your log for warnings about row size during compaction. >
