On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 10:03 PM, Nitin Sharma <nitin.sha...@bloomreach.com>wrote:
> I would recommend always running cassandra with > -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutofMemoryError. This dumps out a *.hprof file if the > process dies due to OOM > If you do this, be sure to configure the heap dump directory, or ensure that the running directory of cassandra (often /home/cassandra) is on a partition with enough free space to hold a dump the size of your heap. =Rob