Going to 1.2.2 helped us quite a bit as well as turning on LCS from STCS which gave us smaller bloomfilters.
As far as key cache. There is an entry in cassandra.yaml called index_interval set to 128. I am not sure if that is related to key_cache. I think it is. By turning that to 512 or maybe even 1024, you will consume less ram there as well though I ran this test in QA and my key cache size stayed the same so I am really not sure(I am actually checking out cassandra code now to dig a little deeper into this property. Dean From: Alain RODRIGUEZ <arodr...@gmail.com<mailto:arodr...@gmail.com>> Reply-To: "user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>" <user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>> Date: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 10:11 AM To: "user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>" <user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>> Subject: About the heap Hi, I would like to know everything that is in the heap. We are here speaking of C*1.1.6 Theory : - Memtable (1024 MB) - Key Cache (100 MB) - Row Cache (disabled, and serialized with JNA activated anyway, so should be off-heap) - BloomFilters (about 1,03 GB - from cfstats, adding all the "Bloom Filter Space Used" and considering they are showed in Bytes - 1103765112) - Anything else ? So my heap should be fluctuating between 1,15 GB and 2.15 GB and growing slowly (from the new BF of my new data). My heap is actually changing from 3-4 GB to 6 GB and sometimes growing to the max 8 GB (crashing the node). Because of this I have an unstable cluster and have no other choice than use Amazon EC2 xLarge instances when we would rather use twice more EC2 Large nodes. What am I missing ? Practice : Is there a way not inducing any load and easy to do to dump the heap to analyse it with MAT (or anything else that you could advice) ? Alain
