The recommended (and default when available) heap size for Cassandra is 8GB and for New size it's 100mb per core.
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With more than 500 customers in 45 countries, DataStax is the database technology and transactional backbone of choice for the worlds most innovative companies such as Netflix, Adobe, Intuit, and eBay. On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 4:00 AM, Jean Tremblay < jean.tremb...@zen-innovations.com> wrote: > Thank you Sebastián for your useful advice. I managed restarting the > nodes, but I needed to delete all the commit logs, not only the last one > specified. Nevertheless I’m back in business. > > Would there be a better memory configuration to select for my nodes in a > C* 3 cluster? Currently I use MAX_HEAP_SIZE=“6G" HEAP_NEWSIZE=“496M” for > a 16M RAM node. > > Thanks for your help. > > Jean > > On 15 Jan 2016, at 24:24 , Sebastian Estevez < > sebastian.este...@datastax.com> wrote: > > > Try starting the other nodes. You may have to delete or mv the commitlog > segment referenced in the error message for the node to come up since > apparently it is corrupted. > > All the best, > > [image: datastax_logo.png] <http://www.datastax.com/> > Sebastián Estévez > Solutions Architect | 954 905 8615 | sebastian.este...@datastax.com > [image: linkedin.png] <https://www.linkedin.com/company/datastax> [image: > facebook.png] <https://www.facebook.com/datastax> [image: twitter.png] > <https://twitter.com/datastax> [image: g+.png] > <https://plus.google.com/+Datastax/about> > <http://feeds.feedburner.com/datastax> > <http://goog_410786983/> > > <http://www.datastax.com/gartner-magic-quadrant-odbms> > > DataStax is the fastest, most scalable distributed database technology, > delivering Apache Cassandra to the world’s most innovative enterprises. > Datastax is built to be agile, always-on, and predictably scalable to any > size. With more than 500 customers in 45 countries, DataStax is the > database technology and transactional backbone of choice for the worlds > most innovative companies such as Netflix, Adobe, Intuit, and eBay. > > On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Jean Tremblay < > jean.tremb...@zen-innovations.com> wrote: > >> How can I restart? >> It blocks with the error listed below. >> Are my memory settings good for my configuration? >> >> On 14 Jan 2016, at 18:30, Jake Luciani <jak...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Yes you can restart without data loss. >> >> Can you please include info about how much data you have loaded per node >> and perhaps what your schema looks like? >> >> Thanks >> >> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 12:24 PM, Jean Tremblay < >> jean.tremb...@zen-innovations.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> Ok, I will open a ticket. >>> >>> How could I restart my cluster without loosing everything ? >>> Would there be a better memory configuration to select for my nodes? >>> Currently I use MAX_HEAP_SIZE="6G" HEAP_NEWSIZE=“496M” for a 16M RAM node. >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Jean >>> >>> On 14 Jan 2016, at 18:19, Tyler Hobbs <ty...@datastax.com> wrote: >>> >>> I don't think that's a known issue. Can you open a ticket at >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA and attach your schema >>> along with the commitlog files and the mutation that was saved to /tmp? >>> >>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 10:56 AM, Jean Tremblay < >>> jean.tremb...@zen-innovations.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I have a small Cassandra Cluster with 5 nodes, having 16MB of RAM. >>>> I use Cassandra 3.1.1. >>>> I use the following setup for the memory: >>>> MAX_HEAP_SIZE="6G" >>>> HEAP_NEWSIZE="496M" >>>> >>>> I have been loading a lot of data in this cluster over the last 24 >>>> hours. The system behaved I think very nicely. It was loading very fast, >>>> and giving excellent read time. There was no error messages until this one: >>>> >>>> >>>> ERROR [SharedPool-Worker-35] 2016-01-14 17:05:23,602 >>>> JVMStabilityInspector.java:139 - JVM state determined to be unstable. >>>> Exiting forcefully due to: >>>> java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space >>>> at java.nio.HeapByteBuffer.<init>(HeapByteBuffer.java:57) ~[na:1.8.0_65] >>>> at java.nio.ByteBuffer.allocate(ByteBuffer.java:335) ~[na:1.8.0_65] >>>> at >>>> org.apache.cassandra.io.util.DataOutputBuffer.reallocate(DataOutputBuffer.java:126) >>>> ~[apache-cassandra-3.1.1.jar:3.1.1] >>>> at >>>> org.apache.cassandra.io.util.DataOutputBuffer.doFlush(DataOutputBuffer.java:86) >>>> ~[apache-cassandra-3.1.1.jar:3.1.1] >>>> at >>>> org.apache.cassandra.io.util.BufferedDataOutputStreamPlus.write(BufferedDataOutputStreamPlus.java:132) >>>> ~[apache-cassandra-3.1.1.jar:3.1.1] >>>> at >>>> org.apache.cassandra.io.util.BufferedDataOutputStreamPlus.write(BufferedDataOutputStreamPlus.java:151) >>>> ~[apache-cassandra-3.1.1.jar:3.1.1] >>>> at >>>> org.apache.cassandra.utils.ByteBufferUtil.writeWithVIntLength(ByteBufferUtil.java:297) >>>> ~[apache-cassandra-3.1.1.jar:3.1.1] >>>> at >>>> org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.AbstractType.writeValue(AbstractType.java:374) >>>> ~[apache-cassandra-3.1.1.jar:3.1.1] >>>> at >>>> org.apache.cassandra.db.rows.BufferCell$Serializer.serialize(BufferCell.java:263) >>>> ~[apache-cassandra-3.1.1.jar:3.1.1] >>>> at >>>> org.apache.cassandra.db.rows.UnfilteredSerializer.serialize(UnfilteredSerializer.java:183) >>>> ~[apache-cassandra-3.1.1.jar:3.1.1] >>>> at >>>> org.apache.cassandra.db.rows.UnfilteredSerializer.serialize(UnfilteredSerializer.java:108) >>>> ~[apache-cassandra-3.1.1.jar:3.1.1] >>>> at >>>> org.apache.cassandra.db.rows.UnfilteredSerializer.serialize(UnfilteredSerializer.java:96) >>>> ~[apache-cassandra-3.1.1.jar:3.1.1] >>>> at >>>> org.apache.cassandra.db.rows.UnfilteredRowIteratorSerializer.serialize(UnfilteredRowIteratorSerializer.java:132) >>>> ~[apache-cassandra-3.1.1.jar:3.1.1] >>>> at >>>> org.apache.cassandra.db.rows.UnfilteredRowIteratorSerializer.serialize(UnfilteredRowIteratorSerializer.java:87) >>>> ~[apache-cassandra-3.1.1.jar:3.1.1] >>>> at >>>> org.apache.cassandra.db.rows.UnfilteredRowIteratorSerializer.serialize(UnfilteredRowIteratorSerializer.java:77) >>>> ~[apache-cassandra-3.1.1.jar:3.1.1] >>>> at >>>> org.apache.cassandra.db.partitions.UnfilteredPartitionIterators$Serializer.serialize(UnfilteredPartitionIterators.java:298) >>>> ~[apache-cassandra-3.1.1.jar:3.1.1] >>>> at >>>> org.apache.cassandra.db.ReadResponse$LocalDataResponse.build(ReadResponse.java:136) >>>> ~[apache-cassandra-3.1.1.jar:3.1.1] >>>> at >>>> org.apache.cassandra.db.ReadResponse$LocalDataResponse.<init>(ReadResponse.java:128) >>>> ~[apache-cassandra-3.1.1.jar:3.1.1] >>>> at >>>> org.apache.cassandra.db.ReadResponse$LocalDataResponse.<init>(ReadResponse.java:123) >>>> ~[apache-cassandra-3.1.1.jar:3.1.1] >>>> at >>>> org.apache.cassandra.db.ReadResponse.createDataResponse(ReadResponse.java:65) >>>> ~[apache-cassandra-3.1.1.jar:3.1.1] >>>> at >>>> org.apache.cassandra.db.ReadCommand.createResponse(ReadCommand.java:289) >>>> ~[apache-cassandra-3.1.1.jar:3.1.1] >>>> at >>>> org.apache.cassandra.db.ReadCommandVerbHandler.doVerb(ReadCommandVerbHandler.java:47) >>>> ~[apache-cassandra-3.1.1.jar:3.1.1] >>>> at >>>> org.apache.cassandra.net.MessageDeliveryTask.run(MessageDeliveryTask.java:67) >>>> ~[apache-cassandra-3.1.1.jar:3.1.1] >>>> at >>>> java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511) >>>> ~[na:1.8.0_65] >>>> at >>>> org.apache.cassandra.concurrent.AbstractTracingAwareExecutorService$FutureTask.run(AbstractTracingAwareExecutorService.java:164) >>>> ~[apache-cassandra-3.1.1.jar:3.1.1] >>>> at org.apache.cassandra.concurrent.SEPWorker.run(SEPWorker.java:105) >>>> [apache-cassandra-3.1.1.jar:3.1.1] >>>> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) [na:1.8.0_65] >>>> >>>> 4 nodes out of 5 crashed with this error message. Now when I want to >>>> restart the first node I have the following error; >>>> >>>> ERROR [main] 2016-01-14 17:15:59,617 JVMStabilityInspector.java:81 - >>>> Exiting due to error while processing commit log during initialization. >>>> org.apache.cassandra.db.commitlog.CommitLogReplayer$CommitLogReplayException: >>>> Unexpected error deserializing mutation; saved to >>>> /tmp/mutation7465380878750576105dat. This may be caused by replaying a >>>> mutation against a table with the same name but incompatible schema. >>>> Exception follows: org.apache.cassandra.serializers.MarshalException: Not >>>> enough bytes to read a map >>>> at >>>> org.apache.cassandra.db.commitlog.CommitLogReplayer.handleReplayError(CommitLogReplayer.java:633) >>>> [apache-cassandra-3.1.1.jar:3.1.1] >>>> at >>>> org.apache.cassandra.db.commitlog.CommitLogReplayer.replayMutation(CommitLogReplayer.java:556) >>>> [apache-cassandra-3.1.1.jar:3.1.1] >>>> at >>>> org.apache.cassandra.db.commitlog.CommitLogReplayer.replaySyncSection(CommitLogReplayer.java:509) >>>> [apache-cassandra-3.1.1.jar:3.1.1] >>>> at >>>> org.apache.cassandra.db.commitlog.CommitLogReplayer.recover(CommitLogReplayer.java:404) >>>> [apache-cassandra-3.1.1.jar:3.1.1] >>>> at >>>> org.apache.cassandra.db.commitlog.CommitLogReplayer.recover(CommitLogReplayer.java:151) >>>> [apache-cassandra-3.1.1.jar:3.1.1] >>>> at >>>> org.apache.cassandra.db.commitlog.CommitLog.recover(CommitLog.java:189) >>>> [apache-cassandra-3.1.1.jar:3.1.1] >>>> at >>>> org.apache.cassandra.db.commitlog.CommitLog.recover(CommitLog.java:169) >>>> [apache-cassandra-3.1.1.jar:3.1.1] >>>> at >>>> org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.setup(CassandraDaemon.java:283) >>>> [apache-cassandra-3.1.1.jar:3.1.1] >>>> at >>>> org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.activate(CassandraDaemon.java:549) >>>> [apache-cassandra-3.1.1.jar:3.1.1] >>>> at >>>> org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.main(CassandraDaemon.java:677) >>>> [apache-cassandra-3.1.1.jar:3.1.1] >>>> >>>> I can no longer start my nodes. >>>> >>>> How can I restart my cluster? >>>> Is this problem known? >>>> Is there a better Cassandra 3 version which would behave better with >>>> respect to this problem? >>>> Would there be a better memory configuration to select for my nodes? >>>> Currently I use MAX_HEAP_SIZE="6G" HEAP_NEWSIZE=“496M” for a 16M RAM >>>> node. >>>> >>>> >>>> Thank you very much for your advice. >>>> >>>> Kind regards >>>> >>>> Jean >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Tyler Hobbs >>> DataStax <http://datastax.com/> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> http://twitter.com/tjake >> >> > >
