On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 5:20 AM, Bryon Spahn <bsp...@kitedesk.com> wrote:
> I am experiencing a strange issue where we run a compaction job weekly and > as a result, the listeners stall. This is a single node cluster running on > an i2.2xl instance in AWS. We are getting the message: > There are almost no cases where it makes sense to run a single node of Cassandra, especially in production. > *[StorageServiceShutdownHook]* > I bet you a donut that you're OOMing the JVM. Stop doing that, and your Cassandra node will stop crashing. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-7507 Is probably the case you have just hit. Basically, in some pathological circumstances, the JVM will send Cassandra a signal that it handles as if you were an operator attempting a clean shutdown. This probably usually does not succeed, but may be worth a shot. =Rob
