Do you have loads of data? 1GB is quite reasonable knowing that 8GB is the recommended RAM size http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/CassandraHardware
Kind regards, Joshua. On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Blaze Dowis <bdow...@aucklanduni.ac.nz> wrote: > Why is it that when I start cassandra, it is taking up to 1G of memory? and > how can I lessen this? here is a small portion of the startup dump..... -- http://twitter.com/jpartogi