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Jonathan Ellis commented on CASSANDRA-475: ------------------------------------------ so readLength is the max size of a single field, and maxLength the max size of the entire rpc call? is maxLength actually controlling a byte[] size somewhere, or not? if it is then we do need to set it, or if the first 4 bytes correspond to a large int we still OOM. > sending random data crashes thrift service > ------------------------------------------ > > Key: CASSANDRA-475 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-475 > Project: Cassandra > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Core > Reporter: Eric Evans > Assignee: Nate McCall > Fix For: 0.7 > > > Use dd if=/dev/urandom count=1 | nc $host 9160 as a handy recipe for shutting > a cassandra instance down. > Thrift has spoken (see THRIFT-601), but "Don't Do That" is probably an > insufficient answer for our users. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.