It's very odd for the jvm to chose a 6g heap. On a 64bit machine it might choose 2g, I've never seen it go larger without xmx. Check to see if you have some sort of flags unintentionally added.
C >From my phone On Nov 10, 2011 4:59 PM, "Patrick Hunt" <[email protected]> wrote: > In general ZK does not bound the heap size. The default is to use > whatever the JVM prefers, which is typically based on available host > memory. You can override this using JVMFLAGS. > > Patrick > > On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Ed Sexton <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Group- > > > > I am running CDH zookeeper version 3.3.3+12.12 and noticed that zookeeper > > is running with a heapsize of 6477m. > > > > I start zookeeper standalone, via /etc/init.d/hadoop-zookeeper-server. I > > do not see reference to any ZOOKEEPER_HEAPIZE in the startup or zoo.cfg, > > nor do I see any special JVMFLAGS in export/usr/bin/zookeeper-server, > which > > is what is called by the startup script, it just has this definition: > > > > JVMFLAGS=-Dzookeeper.log.threshold=INFO > > > > Can someone guide me to where the 6GB heapsize is being referenced? This > > seems a bit large of a heap. > > > > Thanks for your guidance. > > > > Sincerely, > > Ed > > >
