You might want to look at: http://www.opensourceconnections.com/2013/08/31/building-the-perfect-cassandra-test-environment/
On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Brian Flad <bflad...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there anything else running on the boxes? Can you show us the output of > ps aux for the Cassandra process so we can see the -xmx, etc? JDK 7 may > help, even if you cannot upgrade Cassandra yet (which I would really > recommend since it moves items off-heap). > > > On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 4:01 PM, prem yadav <ipremya...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Upgrading is not possible right now. Any other suggestions guys? >> I have already tried reducing the number of rpc threads. Also tried >> reducing the linux kernel overcommit. >> >> >> On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Laing, Michael < >> michael.la...@nytimes.com> wrote: >> >>> I ran into the same problem some time ago. >>> >>> Upgrading to Cassandra 2, jdk 1.7, and default parameters fixed it. >>> >>> I think the jdk change was the key for my similarly small memory cluster. >>> >>> ml >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 1:36 PM, prem yadav <ipremya...@gmail.com>wrote: >>> >>>> Michael, no memory constraints. System memory is 4 GB and Cassandra run >>>> on default. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 5:32 PM, prem yadav <ipremya...@gmail.com>wrote: >>>> >>>>> Its Oracle jdk 1.6. >>>>> Robert, any fix that you know of which went into 1.2.15 for this >>>>> particular issue? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Robert Coli <rc...@eventbrite.com>wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 7:48 AM, prem yadav <ipremya...@gmail.com>wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> But, the cassandra process keeps getting killed due to OOM. >>>>>>> Cassandra version in use is 1.1.9. >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Try using 1.2.15, instead? >>>>>> >>>>>> =Rob >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >> > > > -- > > > Brian Flad > http://about.me/bflad >