Hi All We are using Cassandra 1.2.4 and are seeing the following error loading a pretty small amount of data.
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space at org.apache.cassandra.utils.obs.OpenBitSet.<init>(OpenBitSet.java:76) at org.apache.cassandra.utils.obs.OpenBitSet.deserialize(OpenBitSet.java:429) at org.apache.cassandra.utils.BloomFilterSerializer.deserialize(BloomFilterSerializer.java:46) at org.apache.cassandra.utils.Murmur3BloomFilter$Murmur3BloomFilterSerializer.deserialize(Murmur3BloomFilter.java:38) at org.apache.cassandra.utils.FilterFactory.deserialize(FilterFactory.java:73) at org.apache.cassandra.db.RowIndexEntry$Serializer.deserialize(RowIndexEntry.java:122) at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableReader.load(SSTableReader.java:376) at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableReader.open(SSTableReader.java:198) at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableReader.open(SSTableReader.java:151) at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableLoader$1.accept(SSTableLoader.java:98) at java.io.File.list(File.java:1010) at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableLoader.openSSTables(SSTableLoader.java:67) at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableLoader.stream(SSTableLoader.java:119) at org.apache.cassandra.tools.BulkLoader.main(BulkLoader.java:67) Source folder is -rw-r--r-- 2 cassandra cassandra 1.1K Jul 26 17:25 Australia-ActivityGroupSummaryMathletics-ic-1-CompressionInfo.db -rw-r--r-- 2 cassandra cassandra 1.8M Jul 26 17:25 Australia-ActivityGroupSummaryMathletics-ic-1-Data.db -rw-r--r-- 2 cassandra cassandra 816 Jul 26 17:25 Australia-ActivityGroupSummaryMathletics-ic-1-Filter.db -rw-r--r-- 2 cassandra cassandra 20K Jul 26 17:25 Australia-ActivityGroupSummaryMathletics-ic-1-Index.db -rw-r--r-- 2 cassandra cassandra 4.3K Jul 26 17:25 Australia-ActivityGroupSummaryMathletics-ic-1-Statistics.db Machine has root@data1:/# free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 3968 1525 2442 0 45 161 Is there a way of increasing the default memory available to stableloader, from what I can see it might be 64MB. I have looked at attempting to increase using java -classpath but to no avail. Ben Gambley Development Manager Into Science AUS Direct +61 2 9922 4403 AUS mobile +61 411 331 166 Email ben.gamb...@intoscience.com