Well its not the Linux OOM killer. The system is running with all default settings.
Total memory 7GB- Cassandra gets assigned 2GB 2 core processors. Two rings with 3 nodes in each ring. On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 9:53 PM, Michael Shuler <mich...@pbandjelly.org> wrote: > On 09/24/2014 11:32 AM, Prem Yadav wrote: > >> this is an issue that has happened a few times. We are using DSE 4.0 >> > > I believe this is Apache Cassandra 2.0.5, which is better info for this > list. > > One of the Cassandra nodes is detected as dead by the opscenter even >> though I can see the process is up. >> >> the logs show heap space error: >> >> INFO [RMI TCP Connection(18270)-172.31.49.189] 2014-09-24 08:31:05,340 >> StorageService.java (line 2538) Starting repair command #30766, >> repairing 1 ranges for keyspace <keyspace> >> ERROR [BatchlogTasks:1] 2014-09-24 08:48:54,780 CassandraDaemon.java >> (line 196) Exception in thread Thread[BatchlogTasks:1,5,main] >> java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space >> at java.util.ArrayList.<init>(Unknown Source) >> > > OOM. > > System environment and configuration modification details might be helpful > for others to give you advice. Searching for "cassandra oom" gave me a few > good links to read, and knowing some details about your nodes might be > really helpful. Additionally, CASSANDRA-7507 [0] suggests that an OOM > leaving the process running in an unclean state is not desired, and the > process should be killed. > > Several of the search links provide details on how to capture and dig > around a heap dump to aid in troubleshooting. > > [0] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-7507 > -- > Kind regards, > Michael >