Hi, Thanks for that your suggestions worked a treat. I created a new cassandra user and set the value to unlimited and I get the desired log:
INFO 08:49:50,204 JNA mlockall successful On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Jason Pell <jasonmp...@gmail.com> wrote: > Awesome thanks will make the changes > > So is the man page inaccurate? Or is jna doing something wrong? > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Nov 30, 2010, at 7:28, Nate McCall <n...@riptano.com> wrote: > >> Ok, I was able to reproduce this with "0" as the value. Changing it to >> "unlimited" will make this go away. A closer reading of the >> limits.conf man page seems to leave some ambiguity when taken with the >> examples: >> "All items support the values -1, unlimited or infinity indicating no >> limit, except for priority and nice." >> >> I would recommend tightening this to a specific user. The line I ended >> up with for the "cassandra" user was: >> >> cassandra - memlock unlimited >> >> You probably want to add a line for nofile in there at ~ 16384 as well >> while your there as that can be an issue depending on load. >> >> >> >> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Jason Pell <ja...@pellcorp.com> wrote: >>> * - memlock 0 >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 4:40 AM, Nate McCall <n...@riptano.com> wrote: >>>> What does the current line(s) in limits.conf look like? >>>> >>>> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 2:01 AM, <jasonmp...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> I checked and /etc/security/limits.conf on redhat supports zero (0) to >>>>> mean unlimited. Here is the sample from the man page. Notice the >>>>> soft core entry. >>>>> >>>>> EXAMPLES >>>>> These are some example lines which might be specified in >>>>> /etc/security/limits.conf. >>>>> >>>>> * soft core 0 >>>>> * hard rss 10000 >>>>> @student hard nproc 20 >>>>> @faculty soft nproc 20 >>>>> @faculty hard nproc 50 >>>>> ftp hard nproc 0 >>>>> @student - maxlogins 4 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 6:51 AM, Jason Pell <jasonmp...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> Ok that's a good point i will check - I am not sure. >>>>>> >>>>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>>>> On Nov 29, 2010, at 5:53, Tyler Hobbs <ty...@riptano.com> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> I'm not familiar with ulimit on RedHat systems, but are you sure you >>>>>> have ulimit set correctly? Did you set it to '0' or 'unlimited'? I ask >>>>>> because on a Debian system, I get this: >>>>>> >>>>>> tho...@~ $ ulimit -l >>>>>> unlimited >>>>>> >>>>>> Where you said that you got back '0'. >>>>>> >>>>>> - Tyler >>>>>> >>>>>> On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 1:15 AM, Jason Pell <ja...@pellcorp.com> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I have selinux disabled via /etc/sysconfig/selinux already. But I did >>>>>>> as you suggested anyway, even restarted the whole machine again too >>>>>>> and still no difference. Do you know if there is a way to discover >>>>>>> exactly what this error means? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> THanks >>>>>>> Jason >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 3:59 AM, Nate McCall <n...@riptano.com> wrote: >>>>>>>> This might be an issue with selinux. You can try this quickly to >>>>>>>> temporarily disable selinux enforcement: >>>>>>>> /usr/sbin/setenforce 0 (as root) >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> and then start cassandra as your user. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 1:00 AM, Jason Pell <jasonmp...@gmail.com> >>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>>> I restarted the box :-) so it's well and truly set >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>>>>>>> On Nov 26, 2010, at 17:57, Brandon Williams <dri...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Jason Pell <ja...@pellcorp.com> >>>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> I have set the memlock limit to unlimited in >>>>>>>>>> /etc/security/limits.conf >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> [devel...@localhost apache-cassandra-0.7.0-rc1]$ ulimit -l >>>>>>>>>> 0 >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Running as a non root user gets me a Unknown mlockall error 1 >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Have you tried logging out and back in after changing limits.conf? >>>>>>>>> -Brandon >>>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >
