This looks like it might be https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-11374. Can you comment on that ticket and share your logs leading up to the error?
On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 3:37 PM, Anubhav Kale <anubhav.k...@microsoft.com> wrote: > Hello, > > > > Since we upgraded to Cassandra 2.1.12, we are noticing that * below* > happens when we are trying to bootstrap nodes, and the process just gets > stuck. Restarting the process / VM does not help. Our nodes are around ~300 > GB and run on local SSDs and we haven’t seen this problem on older versions > (specifically 2.1.9). > > > > Is this a known issue / any workarounds ? > > > > *ERROR [Reference-Reaper:1] 2016-04-13 20:33:53,394 Ref.java:179 - LEAK > DETECTED: a reference > (org.apache.cassandra.utils.concurrent.Ref$State@15e611a3) to class > org.apache.cassandra.utils.concurrent.WrappedSharedCloseable$1@203187780:[[OffHeapBitSet]] > was not released before the reference was garbage collected* > > > > Thanks ! > -- Tyler Hobbs DataStax <http://datastax.com/>