Sorry I forgot to say that this is the partial result of :
ps aux | grep cassandra
Best regards
2011/2/17 Victor Kabdebon <victor.kabde...@gmail.com>
> Oh right but Cassandra doesn't really respect that, I thought there was
> another option to set that.
>
> Just for your information, I set xms and xmx very low with a small amount
> of data. I am waiting to be able to connect jconsole, I don't know why it is
> not reachable at the moment. Here is my result :
>
>
> 105 26115 0.2 27.3 1125328 755316 ? Sl Feb09 23:58
> /usr/bin/java -ea -Xms64M -Xmx128M
>
>
> 2011/2/17 Aaron Morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com>
>
>> bin/cassandra.in.sh
>> set Xms and Xmx in the JVM_OPTS
>>
>> Aaron
>>
>>
>> On 18 Feb, 2011,at 09:10 AM, Victor Kabdebon <victor.kabde...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Is it possible to change the maximum JVM heap memory use in 0.6.X ?
>>
>> 2011/2/17 Aaron Morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com>
>>
>>> What are you using for disk_access_mode ?
>>> Have you tried reducing the JVM head size?
>>> Have you added the Jna.jar file to lib/ ? This will allow Cassandra to
>>> lock the JVM memory.
>>>
>>>
>>> Aaron
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 17/02/2011, at 9:20 PM, ruslan usifov <ruslan.usi...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2011/2/16 Aaron Morton < <aa...@thelastpickle.com>
>>> aa...@thelastpickle.com>
>>>
>>>> JVM heap memory is controlled by the settings in conf/Cassandra-env.sh
>>>>
>>>> Memory mapped files will use additional virtual memory, is controlled in
>>>> conf/Cassandra.yaml disk_access_mode
>>>>
>>>>
>>> And??? JVM memory heap in cassandra 0.7 is by default half of memory is
>>> system in my case 4GB, here is a part of cassandra-env.sh:
>>>
>>> calculate_heap_size()
>>> {
>>> case "`uname`" in
>>> Linux)
>>> system_memory_in_mb=`free -m | awk '/Mem:/ {print $2}'`
>>> MAX_HEAP_SIZE=$((system_memory_in_mb / 2))M
>>> return 0
>>> ;;
>>> FreeBSD)
>>> system_memory_in_bytes=`sysctl hw.physmem | awk '{print $2}'`
>>> MAX_HEAP_SIZE=$((system_memory_in_bytes / 1024 / 1024 / 2))M
>>> return 0
>>> ;;
>>> *)
>>> MAX_HEAP_SIZE=1024M
>>> return 1
>>> ;;
>>> esac
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I set all this options by default. All my nodes have 8GB of memory. And i
>>> affraid that after some time all my nodes goes to hard swap, and only reboot
>>> help them :-(((
>>>
>>> PS: as i understand that down sometime of cassandra is normal?
>>>
>>>
>>
>
