I haven't use the packaged kit, but Cassandra uses half of physical memory on your system by default. You need to edit cassandra-env.sh to decrease heap size. Update MAX_HEAP_SIZE and NEW_HEAP_SIZE and restart.
From iPhone On 2012/02/18, at 20:40, Aditya Gupta <ady...@gmail.com> wrote: > I just installed Cassandra on my ubuntu server by adding the following to the > sources list: > > deb http://www.apache.org/dist/cassandra/debian 10x main > deb-src http://www.apache.org/dist/cassandra/debian 10x main > > > Soon after install I started getting OOM errors & then the server became > unresponsive. I added more RAM to the server but found that cassandra was > consuming 100% CPU & 1GB RAM as soon the server was being started. Why is > this happening & how can get it to normal conditions ?
