Did you manually invoke a GC? It doesn't look like you're using enough of the heap for it to care much on its own.
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 2:58 PM, James Golick <jamesgol...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, it's been a few days on 0.6.2 and the new jvm and the behaviour looks > to be about the same: > http://skitch.com/jamesgolick/df46f/munin-fetlife.com-cassandra0.fetlife.com-cassandra-memory > There's only one cache turned on, and it's a row cache, but the sizes of the > rows are identical and it's been full since an hour after I rebooted the > nodes, so it's not that. > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Kyusik Chung <kyu...@discovereads.com> > wrote: >> >> Hi Philip, >> >> I think they chose to go with OpenJDK bc Sun's is not open source. >> >> Here's what we did on ubuntu 10.04 (if youre using a different debian >> distro, you can prob do something very similar): >> >> # this install gives us the convenient add-apt-repository command >> sudo apt-get install python-software-properties -yqq >> >> # java is no longer in the main ubuntu package archives...need "partner" >> sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ lucid partner" >> >> sudo apt-get update -qq >> sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk -yq >> >> >> Kyusik Chung > -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support http://riptano.com