We ran into this while tuning heap sizes. With Cassandra 1.2 making use of off-heap memory, if we made our JVM too large relative to the server memory, the system would just bail. We found for our app that the limit of the JVM size relative to server memory was about 50%.
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Juan Manuel Formoso <jform...@gmail.com>wrote: > This shouldn't happen if you have swap active in the server > > On Wednesday, September 18, 2013, Franc Carter wrote: > >> >> A random guess - possibly an OOM (Out of Memory) where Linux will kill a >> process to recover memory when it is desperately low on memory. Have a look >> in either your syslog output of the output of dmesg >> >> cheers >> >> >> On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 10:21 PM, Hiller, Dean <dean.hil...@nrel.gov>wrote: >> >>> Anyone know how to debug cassandra processes just exiting? There is no >>> info in the cassandra logs and there is no heap dump file(which in the past >>> has shown up in /opt/cassandra/bin directory for me). >>> >>> This occurs when running a map/reduce job that put severe load on the >>> system. The logs look completely fine. I find it odd >>> >>> 1. No logs of why it exited at all >>> 2. No heap dump which would imply there would be no logs as it crashed >>> >>> Is there any other way a process can die and linux would log it somehow? >>> (like running out of memory) >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Dean >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> *Franc Carter* | Systems architect | Sirca Ltd >> >> franc.car...@sirca.org.au | www.sirca.org.au >> >> Tel: +61 2 8355 2514 >> >> Level 4, 55 Harrington St, The Rocks NSW 2000 >> >> PO Box H58, Australia Square, Sydney NSW 1215 >> >> >> > > -- > *Juan Manuel Formoso > *Senior Geek > http://twitter.com/juanformoso > http://seniorgeek.com.ar > LLAP > -- *Ken Hancock *| System Architect, Advanced Advertising SeaChange International 50 Nagog Park Acton, Massachusetts 01720 ken.hanc...@schange.com | www.schange.com | NASDAQ:SEAC<http://www.schange.com/en-US/Company/InvestorRelations.aspx> Office: +1 (978) 889-3329 | [image: Google Talk:] ken.hanc...@schange.com | [image: Skype:]hancockks | [image: Yahoo IM:]hancockks [image: LinkedIn]<http://www.linkedin.com/in/kenhancock> [image: SeaChange International] <http://www.schange.com/>This e-mail and any attachments may contain information which is SeaChange International confidential. The information enclosed is intended only for the addressees herein and may not be copied or forwarded without permission from SeaChange International.
