Hello We have 6 node cluster (cassandra 0.8.10). On one node i increase java heap size to 6GB, and now at this node begin grows swap, but system have about 3GB of free memory:
root@6wd003:~# free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 24733664 21702812 3030852 0 6792 13794724 -/+ buffers/cache: 7901296 16832368 Swap: 1998840 2352 1996488 And swap space slowly grows, but i misunderstand why? PS: We have JNA mlock, and set vm.swappiness = 0 PS: OS ubuntu 10.0.4(2.6.32-40-generic)