this happened after cassandra was running for a couple of days. I have -Xmx3G on JVM.
is there any other info you need so this makes sense? thx! 2009-12-11 21:38:37,216 ERROR [HINTED-HANDOFF-POOL:1] [DebuggableThreadPoolExecutor.java:157] Error in ThreadPoolExecutor java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space at org.apache.cassandra.io.BufferedRandomAccessFile.init(BufferedRandomAccessFile.java:151) at org.apache.cassandra.io.BufferedRandomAccessFile.<init>(BufferedRandomAccessFile.java:144) at org.apache.cassandra.io.SSTableWriter.<init>(SSTableWriter.java:53) at org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.doFileCompaction(ColumnFamilyStore.java:911) at org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.doFileCompaction(ColumnFamilyStore.java:855) at org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.doMajorCompactionInternal(ColumnFamilyStore.java:698) at org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.doMajorCompaction(ColumnFamilyStore.java:670) at org.apache.cassandra.db.HintedHandOffManager.deliverAllHints(HintedHandOffManager.java:190) at org.apache.cassandra.db.HintedHandOffManager.access$000(HintedHandOffManager.java:75) at org.apache.cassandra.db.HintedHandOffManager$1.run(HintedHandOffManager.java:249) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636)