On 06/22/2011 08:53 AM, Sasha Dolgy wrote: > Yes ... this is because it was the OS that killed the process, and > wasn't related to Cassandra "crashing". Reviewing our monitoring, we > saw that memory utilization was pegged at 100% for days and days > before it was finally killed because 'apt' was fighting for resource. > At least, that's as far as I got in my investigation before giving up, > moving to 0.8.0 and implementing 24hr nodetool repair on each node via > cronjob....so far ... no problems.
In `free` terms, by pegged do you mean that free "Mem" was 0, or "-/+ buffers/cache" as 0?