Those would both work; the "right" answer is "get JNA working." :)
rc2 has improved JNA error reporting, upgrade to that and watch the messages on startup, and then when try the snapshot. On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 6:37 AM, Peter Schuller <peter.schul...@infidyne.com > wrote: > > This is a crash with Cassandra 0.7.0-beta3 but I am pretty sure I also > have got this on a rc1 server too ( We are dropping and recreating keyspaces > when this happens) > > > > > > > > I do have the JNA enabled but it looks like it is still calling an > external program – presumably this would cause it to ask for the same memory > as the parent process and hence die? > > Yes. Either enable overcommit in the Linux kernel, or use a > sufficiently new cassandra with working JNA to avoid use of fork+exec > for running ln. > > (I forget when the change wen in so not sure whether beta3/rc1 is > recent enough for the ln fix.) > > -- > / Peter Schuller > -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support http://riptano.com