> Thank you, actually the mmap uses my memory. But is there a way to limit the > memory usage of mmap? Because the memory usage of Cassandra goes incredible > high (~7Gb on a 8Gb machine).
On 64 bit platforms you don't have to worry about the total virtual memory size of the process. If you mean the resident in-memory size, this is entirely up to the operating system to balance and the application has no direct control over it. -- / Peter Schuller
