On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 7:37 PM, aaron morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com>wrote:
> There is some additional memory usage in the JVM beyond that Heap size, in > the permanent generation. 900mb sounds like too much for that, but you can > check by connecting with JConsole and looking at the memory tab. You can > also check the heap size there to see that it's under the value you've set. > > Thanks for the tip! >From JConsole: Heap memory usage: Current 46M; Max 902M Non-Heap memory usage: Current 34M; Max 200MB Both of these seem reasonable and don't reach the (current) 2.1 GB resident usage I am seeing. Check you are using standard disk access (in conf/cassandra.yaml) rather > than memory mapped access. However the memory mapped memory is reported as > virtual memory, not resident. So I'm just mentioning it to be complete. > > At the moment, it's set to "auto", but it's a 64-bit machine, so I believe it's using memory mapped. The virtual memory usage says that it is 54.6 GB. If you think you've configured things correctly and the JVM is not behaving > (which is unlikely) please include some information on the JVM and OS > versions and some hard numbers about what the process is using. > > Debian 6.0 using openjdk-6-jre-lib-6b18-1.8.3-2+squeeze1 Thanks for your help. Casey
