What OS? JVM version? is it always on the same node or all nodes? i had a similar problem in the past in that the OS killed Cassandra because it felt threatened and needed more resources.
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Ashley Martens <amart...@ngmoco.com> wrote: > The thing is we only see that error once every so often. Additional, since > Cassandra is not logging a shutdown message then it must be a violent > termination, which leaves no traces in the system logs. It's possible that > there is something wrong with the hardware, but the OS side I don't see what > would be killing it. The fact that it happens after compaction, usually of > the hints leads me to think that there is ghost hiding there that we had the > great luck to find. > >