8G, by default the jvm was taking 2G, and I had this error even with 1G, I had the error, finally 500M made it work
(4 Intel Atoms, OS: ubuntu 10.04 ) 2012/5/8 Watanabe Maki <watanabe.m...@gmail.com> > How much memory do you have on the box? > It seems you need more memory. > > maki > > > On 2012/05/08, at 1:29, cyril auburtin <cyril.aubur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > well I uncommented lines96&97 in cassandra-env.sh, with lower values > > MAX_HEAP_SIZE="500M" > HEAP_NEWSIZE="100M" > > seems to fix, it > > 2012/5/7 cyril auburtin <cyril.aubur...@gmail.com> > >> The xassandra lauch command worked the first time >> >> then now I keep getting >> >> INFO 18:18:39,354 Starting up server gossip >> ERROR 18:18:39,357 Exception in thread Thread[COMMIT-LOG-ALLOCATOR,5,main] >> java.io.IOError: java.io.IOException: Map failed >> at >> org.apache.cassandra.db.commitlog.CommitLogSegment.<init>(CommitLogSegment.java:127) >> at >> org.apache.cassandra.db.commitlog.CommitLogAllocator$3.run(CommitLogAllocator.java:191) >> at >> org.apache.cassandra.db.commitlog.CommitLogAllocator$1.runMayThrow(CommitLogAllocator.java:95) >> at >> org.apache.cassandra.utils.WrappedRunnable.run(WrappedRunnable.java:30) >> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636) >> Caused by: java.io.IOException: Map failed >> at sun.nio.ch.FileChannelImpl.map(FileChannelImpl.java:803) >> at >> org.apache.cassandra.db.commitlog.CommitLogSegment.<init>(CommitLogSegment.java:119) >> ... 4 more >> Caused by: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Map failed >> at sun.nio.ch.FileChannelImpl.map0(Native Method) >> at sun.nio.ch.FileChannelImpl.map(FileChannelImpl.java:800) >> ... 5 more >> ERROR 18:18:39,361 Exception in thread >> Thread[StorageServiceShutdownHook,5,main] >> java.lang.NullPointerException >> at org.apache.cassandra.gms.Gossiper.stop(Gossiper.java:1113) >> at >> org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService$2.runMayThrow(StorageService.java:478) >> at org.apache.cassandra.utils.WrappedRunnable.run(WrappedRunnable.java:30) >> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636) >> >> I have tried rebooting, starting it alone, clearing all >> /var/lib/cassandra dir >> but keep getting this error >> >> any idea? >> > >