Hi I see in the log of my node cassandra that the parameter -XX:HeapDumpPath is charged two times.
INFO [main] 2016-10-03 04:21:29,941 CassandraDaemon.java:205 - JVM Arguments: [-ea, -javaagent:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jamm-0.3.0.jar, -XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled, -XX:+UseThreadPriorities, -XX:ThreadPriorityPolicy=42, -Xms6G, -Xmx6G, -Xmn600M, *-XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError, -XX:HeapDumpPath=/cassandra/dumps/cassandra-1475461287-pid34435.hprof*, -Xss256k, -XX:StringTableSize=1000003, -XX:+UseParNewGC, -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC, -XX:+CMSParallelRemarkEnabled, -XX:SurvivorRatio=8, -XX:MaxTenuringThreshold=1, -XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=30, -XX:+UseCMSInitiatingOccupancyOnly, -XX:+UseTLAB, -XX:CompileCommandFile=/etc/cassandra/hotspot_compiler, -XX:CMSWaitDuration=10000, -XX:+CMSParallelInitialMarkEnabled, -XX:+CMSEdenChunksRecordAlways, -XX:CMSWaitDuration=10000, -XX:+UseCondCardMark, -XX:+PrintGCDetails, -XX:+PrintGCDateStamps, -XX:+PrintGCApplicationStoppedTime, -Xloggc:/var/opt/hosting/log/cassandra/gc.log, -XX:+UseGCLogFileRotation, -XX:NumberOfGCLogFiles=20, -XX:GCLogFileSize=20M, -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true, -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=7199, -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.rmi.port=7199, -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false, -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false, -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.password.file=/etc/cassandra/jmxremote.password, -Djava.io.tmpdir=/var/opt/hosting/db/cassandra/tmp, -javaagent:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jolokia-jvm-1.0.6-agent.jar=port=8778,host=0.0.0.0, -Dcassandra.auth_bcrypt_gensalt_log2_rounds=4, -Dlogback.configurationFile=logback.xml, -Dcassandra.logdir=/var/log/cassandra, -Dcassandra.storagedir=, -Dcassandra-pidfile=/var/run/cassandra/cassandra.pid, *-XX:HeapDumpPath=/var/lib/cassandra/java_1475461286.hprof*, -XX:ErrorFile=/var/lib/cassandra/hs_err_1475461286.log] This option is defined in cassandra-env.sh if [ "x$CASSANDRA_HEAPDUMP_DIR" != "x" ]; then JVM_OPTS="$JVM_OPTS -XX:HeapDumpPath=$CASSANDRA_HEAPDUMP_DIR/cassandra-`date +%s`-pid$$.hprof" fi and we defined before the value of CASSANDRA_HEAPDUMP_DIR before to */cassandra/dumps/* It is seems that cassandra does not care about the conf in cassandra-env.sh and he only takes in account the last set for HeapDumpPath */var/lib/cassandra/java_1475461286.hprof* This causes problems when we have to dump the heap because cassandra uses the disk not suitable to do it. Is *XX:HeapDumpPath *set in another place/file that I dont know? Thxs Jean Carlo "The best way to predict the future is to invent it" Alan Kay