Does anyone know what would roughly be the heap size for cassandra with 1TB of data ? We started with about 200 G and now on one of the nodes we are already on 1 TB. We were using 8G of heap and that served us well up until we reached 700 G where we started seeing failures and nodes flipping.
With 1 TB of data the node refuses to come back due to lack of memory. needless to say repairs and compactions takes a lot of time. We upped the heap from 8 G to 12 G and suddenly everything started moving rapidly i.e. the repair tasks and the compaction tasks. But soon (in about 9-10 hrs) we started seeing the same symptoms as we were seeing with 8 G. So my question is how do I determine what is the optimal size of heap for data around 1 TB ? Following are some of my JVM settings -Xms8G -Xmx8G -Xmn800m -XX:NewSize=1200M XX:MaxTenuringThreshold=2 -XX:SurvivorRatio=4 Thanks !
