I'm having the same problem, after upgrading from 1.2.3 to 1.2.10. I can remember this was a bug that was solved in the 1.0 or 1.1 version some time ago, but apparently it got back. A workaround is to delete the contents of the saved_caches directory before starting up.
Tom On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 5:15 AM, Aaron Morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com>wrote: > -6 machines which 8gb RAM each and three 150GB disks each > -default heap configuration > > With 8GB the default heap is 2GB, try kicking that up to 4GB and a 600 to > 800 MB new heap. > > I would guess for the data load you have 2GB is not enough. > > hope that helps. > > ----------------- > Aaron Morton > New Zealand > @aaronmorton > > Co-Founder & Principal Consultant > Apache Cassandra Consulting > http://www.thelastpickle.com > > On 8/11/2013, at 11:31 pm, olek.stas...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hello, > I'm facing OOM on reading key_cache > Cluster conf is as follows: > -6 machines which 8gb RAM each and three 150GB disks each > -default heap configuration > -deafult key cache configuration > -the biggest keyspace has abt 500GB size (RF: 2, so in fact there is > 250GB of raw data). > > After upgrading first of the machines from 1.2.11 to 2.0.2 i've recieved > error: > INFO [main] 2013-11-08 10:53:16,716 AutoSavingCache.java (line 114) > reading saved cache > > /home/synat/nosql_filesystem/cassandra/data/saved_caches/production_storage-METADATA-KeyCache-b.db > ERROR [main] 2013-11-08 10:53:16,895 CassandraDaemon.java (line 478) > 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:352) > at > org.apache.cassandra.cache.AutoSavingCache.loadSaved(AutoSavingCache.java:119) > at > org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.<init>(ColumnFamilyStore.java:264) > at > org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.createColumnFamilyStore(ColumnFamilyStore.java:409) > at > org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.createColumnFamilyStore(ColumnFamilyStore.java:381) > at org.apache.cassandra.db.Keyspace.initCf(Keyspace.java:314) > at org.apache.cassandra.db.Keyspace.<init>(Keyspace.java:268) > at org.apache.cassandra.db.Keyspace.open(Keyspace.java:110) > at org.apache.cassandra.db.Keyspace.open(Keyspace.java:88) > at > org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.setup(CassandraDaemon.java:274) > at > org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.activate(CassandraDaemon.java:461) > at > org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.main(CassandraDaemon.java:504) > > > Error appears every start, so I've decided to disable key cache (this > was not helpful) and temporarily moved key cache out of cache folder > (file was of size 13M). That helps in starting node, but this is only > workaround and it's not demanded configuration. Anyone has any idea > what is the real cause of problem with oom? > best regards > Aleksander > ps. I've still 5 nodes to upgrade, I'll inform if problem apperas on the > rest. > > >