What version of cassandra are you using ?
What are the JVM settings? (check with ps aux | grep cassandra)
OOM in cassandra 1.2+ is rare but there is also
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5706 and
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6087
One instance of
I am investigating Java Out of memory heap errors. So I created an .hprof
file and loaded it into Eclipse Memory Analyzer Tool which gave some
Problem Suspects.
First one looks like:
One instance of org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore loaded by
sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader @
