Re: Advice on memory warning

2013-04-25 Thread aaron morton
There have been a lot of discussions about GC tuning on the mail thread. Here's a really quick set of guidelines I use, please search the mail archive if it does not answer your question. If heavy GC activity correlates with cassandra compaction, do one or more of: * reduce

Re: Advice on memory warning

2013-04-24 Thread Michael Theroux
Hello, Just to wrap up on my part of this thread, tuning CMS compaction threshold (-XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction) to 70 appears to resolved my issues with the memory warnings. However, I don't believe this would be a solution to all the issues mentioned below. Although, it does make

Re: Advice on memory warning

2013-04-23 Thread Ralph Goers
We are using DSE, which I believe is also 1.1.9. We have basically had a non-usable cluster for months due to this error. In our case, once it starts doing this it starts flushing sstables to disk and eventually fills up the disk to the point where it can't compact. If we catch it soon

RE: Advice on memory warning

2013-04-21 Thread moshe.kranc
[mailto:mthero...@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, April 19, 2013 6:00 PM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Advice on memory warning Hello, We've recently upgraded from m1.large to m1.xlarge instances on AWS to handle additional load, but to also relieve memory pressure. It appears to have accomplished

Advice on memory warning

2013-04-19 Thread Michael Theroux
Hello, We've recently upgraded from m1.large to m1.xlarge instances on AWS to handle additional load, but to also relieve memory pressure. It appears to have accomplished both, however, we are still getting a warning, 0-3 times a day, on our database nodes: WARN [ScheduledTasks:1] 2013-04-19