On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Chris Burroughs <chris.burrou...@gmail.com>wrote:
> What do you mean by "eating up the memory"? Resident set size, low > memory available to page cache, excessive gc of the jvm's heap? > > jvm's heap is set for half of the physical memory (1982 MB out of 4G), and jsvc is using 2.9G (73%) of resident memory. Are you saying: that you want a smaller heap and what settings to change > to accommodate that, or that you have already set a small heap of x and > Cassandra is using significantly more than that? > Based on my observation above, the latter. Casey