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 "org.apache.
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