Hello, Since upgrading from 1.1.9 to 1.2.6 over the last week, we've had two instances where cassandra was unable, but kept trying to restart:
////SNIP//// INFO [main] 2013-07-19 16:12:36,769 AutoSavingCache.java (line 140) reading saved cache /var/cassandra/caches/SyncCore-CommEvents-KeyCache-b.db ERROR [main] 2013-07-19 16:12:36,966 CassandraDaemon.java (line 458) Exception encountered during startup java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space at org.apache.cassandra.utils.ByteBufferUtil.read(ByteBufferUtil.java:394) at org.apache.cassandra.utils.ByteBufferUtil.readWithLength(ByteBufferUtil.java:355) at org.apache.cassandra.service.CacheService$KeyCacheSerializer.deserialize(CacheService.java:379) at org.apache.cassandra.cache.AutoSavingCache.loadSaved(AutoSavingCache.java:145) at org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.<init>(ColumnFamilyStore.java:266) at org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.createColumnFamilyStore(ColumnFamilyStore.java:382) at org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.createColumnFamilyStore(ColumnFamilyStore.java:354) at org.apache.cassandra.db.Table.initCf(Table.java:329) at org.apache.cassandra.db.Table.<init>(Table.java:272) at org.apache.cassandra.db.Table.open(Table.java:109) at org.apache.cassandra.db.Table.open(Table.java:87) at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.setup(CassandraDaemon.java:271) at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.activate(CassandraDaemon.java:441) at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.main(CassandraDaemon.java:484) INFO [main] 2013-07-19 16:12:43,288 CassandraDaemon.java (line 118) Logging initialized ////SNIP//// This is new behavior with 1.2.6. Stopping cassandra, moving the offending file, then starting cassandra does succeed. Any config suggestions (key cache config?) to prevent this from happening? THX Cheers, ~Jason