All, When I connect to a node through jconsole it's telling me that my max heap is only 1.7gb. (eg http://screencast.com/t/7DP8ovdUv) However I believe I have properly specified that it should be 4GB in cassandra-env.sh. Total memory is 7.5GB
I see greatly increased GC activity as the heap approaches 1.7GB. Can anyone suggest why the heap might not use all the memory as specified? Ian >From cassandra-env.sh MAX_HEAP_SIZE="4096M" HEAP_NEWSIZE="400M" JVM_OPTS="$JVM_OPTS -Xms${MAX_HEAP_SIZE}" JVM_OPTS="$JVM_OPTS -Xmx${MAX_HEAP_SIZE}" JVM_OPTS="$JVM_OPTS -Xmn${HEAP_NEWSIZE}"