On 03/04/2011 03:51 PM, Casey Deccio wrote: > Are you saying: that you want a smaller heap and what settings to change >> to accommodate that, or that you have already set a small heap of x and >> Cassandra is using significantly more than that? >> > > Based on my observation above, the latter. > > Casey >
As Aaron said then the first things to look at are your jvm settings, jvm version, and io configuration (standard v mmap). You may also wish to read this thread: http://cassandra-user-incubator-apache-org.3065146.n2.nabble.com/reduced-cached-mem-resident-set-size-growth-td5967110.html
