GitHub user akolyadenko opened the pull request at https://github.com/apache/cassandra/pull/10
---- Provide initial size for ColumnFamily object. It's fix for https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-3741. The problem there is that when ColumnFamily got all columns deleted, the size() method returns 0 despite the fact that actual object size is at least 40 bytes. It affects calculations of whole Memtable size. In my case I deleted millions of columns and Cassandra didn't calculate Memtable size correctly, and didn't flush it. It caused OOM crash of DB. ---- You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running $ git pull https://github.com/akolyadenko/cassandra trunk Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at https://github.com/apache/cassandra/pull/10.patch
