I figured out the issue. I'm using a VM and the template I had did not configure enough virtual memory. I'm not sure what the minimum is but 2048 seems to work. For the record, I'm using
/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jna-4.1.0.jar Thanks for all of the tips! Garret On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 11:13 AM, J. Ryan Earl <o...@jryanearl.us> wrote: > CentOS6 and every major version of C* from 1.1 through 2.1, but I would be > curious if there's maybe a memory leak or something fixed between 3.2.4 and > 3.2.7...? AFAIK, it's only use for memlocking the heap and creating > hardlinks for snapshots, both of which work. > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Garret Pick <pic...@whistle.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On this page >> >> >> http://www.datastax.com/documentation/cassandra/2.0/cassandra/install/installJnaRHEL.html >> >> it says >> >> "Cassandra requires JNA 3.2.7 or later. Some Yum repositories may provide >> earlier versions" >> >> and at the bottom >> >> "If you can't install using Yum or it provides a version of the JNA >> earlier than 3.2.7, install as described in Installing the JNA from the JAR >> file." >> >> Which version of OS and Cassandra are you running? >> >> thanks, >> Garret >> >> >> >> >> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 10:46 AM, J. Ryan Earl <o...@jryanearl.us> wrote: >> > >> > We've been using jna-3.2.4-2.el6.x86_64 with the Sun/Oracle JDK for >> probably 2-years now, and it works just fine. Where are you seeing 3.2.7 >> required at? I searched the pages you link and that string isn't even in >> there. >> > >> > Regardless, I assure you the newest jna that ships in the EL6 repo >> works without issues. >> > >> > On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Garret Pick <pic...@whistle.com> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> Hello, >> >> >> >> I'm having problems getting cassandra to start with the configuration >> listed above. >> >> >> >> Yum wants to install 3.2.4-2.el6 of the JNA along with several other >> packages including java-1.7.0-openjdk >> >> >> >> The documentation states that a JNA version earlier that 3.2.7 should >> not be used, so the jar file should be downloaded and installed directly >> into C*'s lib directory per >> >> >> >> >> http://www.datastax.com/documentation/cassandra/2.0/cassandra/install/installJnaTar.html >> >> >> >> From /var/log/cassandra/system.log >> >> >> >> all I see is >> >> >> >> INFO [main] 2015-02-25 20:06:10,202 CassandraDaemon.java (line 191) >> Classpath: >> /etc/cassandra/conf:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/antlr-3.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/apache-cassandra-2.0.12.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/apache-cassandra-clientutil-2.0.12.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/apache-cassandra-thrift-2.0.12.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/commons-cli-1.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/commons-codec-1.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/commons-lang3-3.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/compress-lzf-0.8.4.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/concurrentlinkedhashmap-lru-1.3.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/disruptor-3.0.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/guava-15.0.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/high-scale-lib-1.1.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jackson-core-asl-1.9.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jackson-mapper-asl-1.9.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jamm-0.2.5.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jbcrypt-0.3m.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jline-1.0.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jna.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/json-simple-1.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/libthrift-0.9.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/log4j-1.2.16.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/lz4-1.2.0.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/metrics-core-2.2.0.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/netty-3.6.6.Final.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/reporter-config-2.1.0.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/servlet-api-2.5-20081211.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/slf4j-api-1.7.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/slf4j-log4j12-1.7.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/snakeyaml-1.11.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/snappy-java-1.0.5.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/snaptree-0.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/stress.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/super-csv-2.1.0.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/thrift-server-0.3.7.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jamm-0.2.5.jar >> >> >> >> and it never actually starts >> >> >> >> Note that JNA is in the classpath above and is when I remove it, >> cassandra starts successfully. >> >> >> >> I tried installing the DSE package and it looks like it wants to >> install the older 3.2.4 JNA as a dependency so there seems to be a >> discrepancy in documentation >> >> >> >> Per >> >> >> >> >> http://www.datastax.com/documentation/datastax_enterprise/4.6/datastax_enterprise/install/installRHELdse.html >> >> >> >> Note: JNA (Java Native Access) is automatically installed. >> >> >> >> thanks for any help, >> >> Garret >> > >> > >> > >
