If you use your off heap memory linux has an OOM killer, that will kill a random tasks.
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Bryan Talbot <btal...@aeriagames.com>wrote: > If off-heap memory (for indes samples, bloom filters, row caches, key > caches, etc) is exhausted, will cassandra experience a memory allocation > error and quit? If so, are there plans to make the off-heap usage more > dynamic to allow less used pages to be replaced with "hot" data and the > paged-out / "cold" data read back in again on demand? > > -Bryan > > > > On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> index_interval won't be going away, but you won't need to change it as >> often in 2.0: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5521 >> >> On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Hiller, Dean <dean.hil...@nrel.gov> >> wrote: >> > I heard a rumor that index_interval is going away? What is the >> replacement for this? (we have been having to play with this setting a lot >> lately as too big and it gets slow yet too small and cassandra uses way too >> much RAM…we are still trying to find the right balance with this setting). >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Dean >> >> >> >> -- >> Jonathan Ellis >> Project Chair, Apache Cassandra >> co-founder, http://www.datastax.com >> @spyced >> > >
