Dear all, Sorry to come back again to this point but I am really worried about Cassandra memory consumption. I have a single machine that runs one Cassandra server. There is almost no data on it but I see a crazy memory consumption and it doesn't care at all about the instructions... Note that I am not using mmap, but "Standard", I use also JNA (inside lib folder), i am running on debian 5 64 bits, so a pretty normal configuration. I also use Cassandra 0.6.8.
Here are the informations I gathered on Cassandra : 105 16765 0.1 34.1 1089424* 687476* ? Sl Feb02 14:58 /usr/bin/java -ea* -Xms128M* *-Xmx256M* -XX:+UseParNewGC -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+CMSParallelRemarkEnabled -XX:SurvivorRatio=8 -XX:MaxTenuringThreshold=1 -XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=75 -XX:+UseCMSInitiatingOccupancyOnly -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=8081 -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false -Dstorage-config=bin/../conf -Dcassandra-foreground=yes -cp bin/../conf:bin/../build/classes:bin/../lib/antlr-3.1.3.jar:bin/../lib/apache-cassandra-0.6.6.jar:bin/../lib/avro-1.2.0-dev.jar:bin/../lib/cassandra-javautils.jar:bin/../lib/clhm-production.jar:bin/../lib/commons-cli-1.1.jar:bin/../lib/commons-codec-1.2.jar:bin/../lib/commons-collections-3.2.1.jar:bin/../lib/commons-io-1.4.jar:bin/../lib/commons-lang-2.4.jar:bin/../lib/commons-pool-1.5.4.jar:bin/../lib/google-collections-1.0.jar:bin/../lib/hadoop-core-0.20.1.jar:bin/../lib/hector-0.6.0-14.jar:bin/../lib/high-scale-lib.jar:bin/../lib/ivy-2.1.0.jar:bin/../lib/jackson-core-asl-1.4.0.jar:bin/../lib/jackson-mapper-asl-1.4.0.jar:bin/../lib/jline-0.9.94.jar:bin/../lib/jna.jar:bin/../lib/json-simple-1.1.jar:bin/../lib/libthrift-r917130.jar:bin/../lib/log4j-1.2.14.jar:bin/../lib/perf4j-0.9.12.jar:bin/../lib/slf4j-api-1.5.8.jar:bin/../lib/slf4j-log4j12-1.5.8.jar:bin/../lib/uuid-3.1.jar org.apache.cassandra.thrift.CassandraDaemon result of nodetool info : 116024732779488843382476400091948985708 *Load : 1,94 MB* Generation No : 1296673772 Uptime (seconds) : 467550 *Heap Memory (MB) : 120,26 / 253,94* I have about 21 column families, none of them have a lot of information ( as you see I have 2 Mb of text which is really small). Even if I set Xmx at 256 there is 687M of memory used. Where does this memory come from ? Bad garbage collection ? Something that I ignore ? Thank you for your help I really need to get rid of that problem. Best regards, Victor Kabdebon
