Re: OOM on heavy write load

2011-04-28 Thread Thibaut Britz
25, 2011 12:55 PM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: RE: OOM on heavy write load How large are your rows? binary_memtable_throughput_in_ mb only tracks size of data, but there is an overhead associated with each row on the order of magnitude of a few KBs. If your row data sizes

Re: OOM on heavy write load

2011-04-28 Thread Peter Schuller
Could this be related as well to https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2463? My gut feel: Maybe, if the slowness/timeouts reported by the OP are intermixed with periods of activity to indicate compacting full gc. OP: Check if cassandra is going into 100% (not less, not more) CPU

Re: OOM on heavy write load

2011-04-28 Thread Peter Schuller
My gut feel: Maybe, if the slowness/timeouts reported by the OP are intermixed with periods of activity to indicate compacting full gc. But even then, after taking a single full GC the behavior should disappear since there should be no left-overs from the smaller columns causing fragmentation

Re: OOM on heavy write load

2011-04-27 Thread Aaron Morton
for GC. From: Shu Zhang [szh...@mediosystems.com] Sent: Monday, April 25, 2011 12:55 PM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: RE: OOM on heavy write load How large are your rows? binary_memtable_throughput_in_ mb only tracks size of data

RE: OOM on heavy write load

2011-04-25 Thread Shu Zhang
size. From: Nikolay Kоvshov [nkovs...@yandex.ru] Sent: Monday, April 25, 2011 5:21 AM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Re: OOM on heavy write load I assume if I turn off swap it will just die earlier, no ? What is the mechanism of dying ? From the link

RE: OOM on heavy write load

2011-04-25 Thread Shu Zhang
Zhang [szh...@mediosystems.com] Sent: Monday, April 25, 2011 12:55 PM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: RE: OOM on heavy write load How large are your rows? binary_memtable_throughput_in_ mb only tracks size of data, but there is an overhead associated with each row on the order of magnitude

Re: OOM on heavy write load

2011-04-22 Thread Jonathan Ellis
(0) turn off swap (1) http://www.datastax.com/docs/0.7/troubleshooting/index#nodes-are-dying-with-oom-errors On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Nikolay Kоvshov nkovs...@yandex.ru wrote: I am using Cassandra 0.7.0 with following settings binary_memtable_throughput_in_mb: 64