This shouldn't happen if you have swap active in the server
On Wednesday, September 18, 2013, Franc Carter wrote:
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> A random guess - possibly an OOM (Out of Memory) where Linux will kill a
> process to recover memory when it is desperately low on memory. Have a look
> in either your syslog output of the output of dmesg
>
> cheers
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 10:21 PM, Hiller, Dean
> <dean.hil...@nrel.gov<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'dean.hil...@nrel.gov');>
> > wrote:
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>> Anyone know how to debug cassandra processes just exiting? There is no
>> info in the cassandra logs and there is no heap dump file(which in the past
>> has shown up in /opt/cassandra/bin directory for me).
>>
>> This occurs when running a map/reduce job that put severe load on the
>> system. The logs look completely fine. I find it odd
>>
>> 1. No logs of why it exited at all
>> 2. No heap dump which would imply there would be no logs as it crashed
>>
>> Is there any other way a process can die and linux would log it somehow?
>> (like running out of memory)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dean
>>
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