Pretty sure this is b/c OS X doesn't support posix_fadvise.

Since you shouldn't be running OS X as a server OS in production
anyway, I wouldn't worry much. Cassandra will still work fine for
development w/o native methods.

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 7:52 AM, John Lennard <j...@gravitate.co.nz> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am currently testing the current 0.8 beta on my OSX development machine and 
> when cassandra is starting up i am seeing errors from the JNA code as below.
>
>
> john@balorama bin $ sudo -u cassandra ./cassandra -f
> Password:
>  INFO 00:04:18,013 Logging initialized
>  INFO 00:04:18,027 Heap size: 2126512128/2126512128
>  INFO 00:04:18,078 Unable to link C library. Native methods will be disabled.
>
> ...
>
> From here Cassandra continues to run, however, without native method support.
>
>
> I have tested running Cassandra as root, the logged in user and the cassandra 
> user along with the most recent JNA and a version compiled from trunk. I have 
> also tried running cassandra with out any of the start up scripts and still 
> the same error, simple tests where by i have removed the CLibrary class and 
> code that causes the fault seem to allow the c library to be linked.
>
> I am about to build a version from source to add in some stack traces where 
> the error is handled but was wondering if anyone else has seen this.
>
>
> Thanks
> John
>
>
>
>



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