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Brandon Williams commented on CASSANDRA-3991: --------------------------------------------- bq. Are we sure it actually restart the process? I could be wrong but last time I checked, jsvc was only restarting a crashed process if the exit code was 123 (or something like that) I know from experience if you set the heap to a small value like 64M and use jsvc on a machine with a small amount of memory (like 256M) it will a) use more memory than the system has, b) get killed by the oom killer, and c) restart the cycle again. > Investigate importance of jsvc in debian packages > ------------------------------------------------- > > Key: CASSANDRA-3991 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-3991 > Project: Cassandra > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Core > Reporter: Brandon Williams > Assignee: Brandon Williams > Fix For: 1.1.1 > > > jsvc seems to be buggy at best. For instance, if you set a small heap like > 128M it seems to completely ignore this and use as much memory as it wants. > I don't know what this is buying us over launching /usr/bin/cassandra > directly like the redhat scripts do, but I've seen multiple complaints about > its memory usage. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira