I've seen the other posts about memory consumption, but I'm seeing some weird behavior with 0.7.4 with 5 GB heap size (64 bit system with 8 GB ram total)...
note the virtual mem used 20.6 GB ?! and Shared 8.4 GB ?! PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2390 root 20 0 0 0 0 D 1 0.0 0:28.73 flush-104:0 31684 cassandr 20 0 20.6g 3.5g 8496 S 1 45.4 4:08.91 java 17 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:38.03 events/2 What could be going on here? config .... initial_token: auto_bootstrap: true hinted_handoff_enabled: true max_hint_window_in_ms: 3600000 # one hour hinted_handoff_throttle_delay_in_ms: 50 authenticator: org.apache.cassandra.auth.AllowAllAuthenticator authority: org.apache.cassandra.auth.AllowAllAuthority partitioner: org.apache.cassandra.dht.RandomPartitioner data_file_directories: - /var/lib/cassandra/data commitlog_directory: /var/lib/cassandra/commitlog saved_caches_directory: /var/lib/cassandra/saved_caches commitlog_rotation_threshold_in_mb: 128 commitlog_sync: periodic commitlog_sync_period_in_ms: 10000 flush_largest_memtables_at: 0.75 reduce_cache_sizes_at: 0.85 reduce_cache_capacity_to: 0.6 disk_access_mode: auto concurrent_reads: 16 concurrent_writes: 32 sliced_buffer_size_in_kb: 64 storage_port: 7000 rpc_port: 9160 rpc_keepalive: true thrift_framed_transport_size_in_mb: 15 thrift_max_message_length_in_mb: 16 snapshot_before_compaction: false binary_memtable_throughput_in_mb: 256 column_index_size_in_kb: 64 in_memory_compaction_limit_in_mb: 64 rpc_timeout_in_ms: 10000 endpoint_snitch: org.apache.cassandra.locator.RackInferringSnitch dynamic_snitch: true dynamic_snitch_update_interval_in_ms: 100 dynamic_snitch_reset_interval_in_ms: 600000 dynamic_snitch_badness_threshold: 0.0 request_scheduler: org.apache.cassandra.scheduler.NoScheduler index_interval: 128 keyspaces: - name: DFS replica_placement_strategy: org.apache.cassandra.locator.OldNetworkTopologyStrategy replication_factor: 3 column_families: - name: main compare_with: BytesType keys_cached: 200000 rows_cached: 200 row_cache_save_period_in_seconds: 0 key_cache_save_period_in_seconds: 3600