Robbie Strickland created CASSANDRA-10449: ---------------------------------------------
Summary: OOM on bootstrap due to long GC pause Key: CASSANDRA-10449 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-10449 Project: Cassandra Issue Type: Bug Components: Core Environment: Ubuntu 14.04 Reporter: Robbie Strickland I have a 20-node cluster with vnodes (default of 256) and 500-700GB per node. SSTable counts are <10 per node. I am attempting to provision additional nodes, but bootstrapping OOMs every time after about 10 hours with a sudden long GC pause: {noformat} INFO [Service Thread] 2015-10-05 23:33:33,373 GCInspector.java:252 - G1 Old Generation GC in 1586126ms. G1 Old Gen: 49213756976 -> 49072277176; ... ERROR [MemtableFlushWriter:454] 2015-10-05 23:33:33,380 CassandraDaemon.java:223 - Exception in thread Thread[MemtableFlushWriter:454,5,main] java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space {noformat} I have tried increasing max heap to 48G just to get through the bootstrap, to no avail. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)