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The "Operations" page has been changed by RobertColi. The comment on this change is: removed extraneous "depending on operating system". should be done with this section for today, heh.. http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Operations?action=diff&rev1=65&rev2=66 -------------------------------------------------- }}} This is caused by the operating system trying to allocate the child "ln" process a memory space as large as the parent process (the cassandra server), even though '''it's not going to use it'''. So if you have a machine with 8GB of RAM and no swap, and you gave 6GB to the cassandra server, it will fail during this because the operating system wants 12 GB of virtual memory before allowing you to create the process. - This error can be worked around (depending on the operating system by either : + This error can be worked around by either : * creating a swap file, snapshotting, removing swap file OR
