For clarification, I'm running Cassandra on a VMware ubuntu server instance.
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Aditya Gupta <ady...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks! But what about the 100% cpu consumption that is causing the server > to hang? > > > On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Watanabe Maki <watanabe.m...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> I haven't use the packaged kit, but Cassandra uses half of physical >> memory on your system by default. >> You need to edit cassandra-env.sh to decrease heap size. >> Update MAX_HEAP_SIZE and NEW_HEAP_SIZE and restart. >> >> From iPhone >> >> >> On 2012/02/18, at 20:40, Aditya Gupta <ady...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I just installed Cassandra on my ubuntu server by adding the following to >> the sources list: >> >> deb http://www.apache.org/dist/cassandra/debian 10x main >> deb-src http://www.apache.org/dist/cassandra/debian 10x main >> >> >> Soon after install I started getting OOM errors & then the server became >> unresponsive. I added more RAM to the server but found that cassandra was >> consuming 100% CPU & 1GB RAM as soon the server was being started. Why is >> this happening & how can get it to normal conditions ? >> >> >