On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Aaron Morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com> wrote: > 1) Is the memory error just a result of me letting my machine run stupidly > low on memory?
No, it's the JVM forking to run ln. Enable overcommit, or get JNA so it does the link w/ native code instead. > 2) Should it have returned an ApplicationError or some such in this case? > The code in ColumnFamilyStore:1368 is catching the IOException from the call > to FileUtils.createHardLink and wrapping it in an IOError. However the code > in TruncateVerbHandler:56 is looking for the IOException. That does sound like a bug. -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support http://riptano.com