Re: Memory Usage of a connection

2012-08-30 Thread rohit bhatia
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Peter Schuller < peter.schul...@infidyne.com> wrote: > > Could these 500 connections/second cause (on average) 2600Mb memory usage > > per 2 second ~ 1300Mb/second. > > or For 1 connection around 2-3Mb. > > In terms of garbage generated it's much less about number

Re: Memory Usage of a connection

2012-08-30 Thread Peter Schuller
> Could these 500 connections/second cause (on average) 2600Mb memory usage > per 2 second ~ 1300Mb/second. > or For 1 connection around 2-3Mb. In terms of garbage generated it's much less about number of connections as it is about what you're doing with them. Are you for example requesting large

Re: Memory Usage of a connection

2012-08-30 Thread rohit bhatia
PS: everything above is in bytes, not bits. On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 11:03 AM, rohit bhatia wrote: > I was wondering how much would be the memory usage of an established > connection in cassandra's heap space. > > We are noticing extremely frequent young generation garbage collections > (3.2gb yo