Its recommended to disable swap entirely when you run Cassandra on a server.
2012/4/14 ruslan usifov <ruslan.usi...@gmail.com> > I forgot to say that system have 24GB of phis memory > > > 2012/4/14 ruslan usifov <ruslan.usi...@gmail.com> > >> Hello >> >> We have 6 node cluster (cassandra 0.8.10). On one node i increase java >> heap size to 6GB, and now at this node begin grows swap, but system have >> about 3GB of free memory: >> >> >> root@6wd003:~# free >> total used free shared buffers cached >> Mem: 24733664 21702812 3030852 0 6792 13794724 >> -/+ buffers/cache: 7901296 16832368 >> Swap: 1998840 2352 1996488 >> >> >> And swap space slowly grows, but i misunderstand why? >> >> >> PS: We have JNA mlock, and set vm.swappiness = 0 >> PS: OS ubuntu 10.0.4(2.6.32-40-generic) >> >> >> > -- With kind regards, Robin Verlangen www.robinverlangen.nl
