GC options are not set. You should see the followings. -XX:+PrintGCDateStamps -XX:+PrintPromotionFailure -Xloggc:/var/log/cassandra/gc-1371603607.log
> Is it normal to have two processes like this? No. You are running two processes. On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Joel Samuelsson <samuelsson.j...@gmail.com>wrote: > My Cassandra ps info: > > root 26791 1 0 07:14 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/jsvc -user > cassandra -home /opt/java/64/jre1.6.0_32/bin/../ -pidfile > /var/run/cassandra.pid -errfile &1 -outfile /var/log/cassandra/output.log > -cp > /usr/share/cassandra/lib/antlr-3.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/avro-1.4.0-fixes.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/avro-1.4.0-sources-fixes.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/commons-cli-1.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/commons-codec-1.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/commons-lang-2.6.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/compress-lzf-0.8.4.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/concurrentlinkedhashmap-lru-1.3.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/guava-13.0.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/high-scale-lib-1.1.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jackson-core-asl-1.9.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jackson-mapper-asl-1.9.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jamm-0.2.5.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jbcrypt-0.3m.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jline-1.0.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jna.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/json-simple-1.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/libthrift-0.7.0.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/log4j-1.2.16.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/lz4-1.1.0.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/metrics-core-2.0.3.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/netty-3.5.9.Final.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/servlet-api-2.5-20081211.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/slf4j-api-1.7.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/slf4j-log4j12-1.7.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/snakeyaml-1.6.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/snappy-java-1.0.4.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/snaptree-0.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/apache-cassandra-1.2.5.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/apache-cassandra-thrift-1.2.5.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/apache-cassandra.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/stress.jar:/usr/share/java/jna.jar:/etc/cassandra:/usr/share/java/commons-daemon.jar > -Dlog4j.configuration=log4j-server.properties > -Dlog4j.defaultInitOverride=true > -XX:HeapDumpPath=/var/lib/cassandra/java_1371626058.hprof > -XX:ErrorFile=/var/lib/cassandra/hs_err_1371626058.log -ea > -javaagent:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jamm-0.2.5.jar -XX:+UseThreadPriorities > -XX:ThreadPriorityPolicy=42 -Xms4004M -Xmx4004M -Xmn800M > -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Xss180k -XX:+UseParNewGC > -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+CMSParallelRemarkEnabled -XX:SurvivorRatio=8 > -XX:MaxTenuringThreshold=1 -XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=75 > -XX:+UseCMSInitiatingOccupancyOnly -XX:+UseTLAB > -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=7199 > -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false > -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false > org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon > 103 26792 26791 99 07:14 ? 854015-22:02:22 /usr/bin/jsvc -user > cassandra -home /opt/java/64/jre1.6.0_32/bin/../ -pidfile > /var/run/cassandra.pid -errfile &1 -outfile /var/log/cassandra/output.log > -cp > /usr/share/cassandra/lib/antlr-3.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/avro-1.4.0-fixes.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/avro-1.4.0-sources-fixes.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/commons-cli-1.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/commons-codec-1.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/commons-lang-2.6.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/compress-lzf-0.8.4.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/concurrentlinkedhashmap-lru-1.3.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/guava-13.0.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/high-scale-lib-1.1.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jackson-core-asl-1.9.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jackson-mapper-asl-1.9.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jamm-0.2.5.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jbcrypt-0.3m.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jline-1.0.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jna.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/json-simple-1.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/libthrift-0.7.0.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/log4j-1.2.16.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/lz4-1.1.0.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/metrics-core-2.0.3.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/netty-3.5.9.Final.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/servlet-api-2.5-20081211.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/slf4j-api-1.7.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/slf4j-log4j12-1.7.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/snakeyaml-1.6.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/snappy-java-1.0.4.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/snaptree-0.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/apache-cassandra-1.2.5.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/apache-cassandra-thrift-1.2.5.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/apache-cassandra.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/stress.jar:/usr/share/java/jna.jar:/etc/cassandra:/usr/share/java/commons-daemon.jar > -Dlog4j.configuration=log4j-server.properties > -Dlog4j.defaultInitOverride=true > -XX:HeapDumpPath=/var/lib/cassandra/java_1371626058.hprof > -XX:ErrorFile=/var/lib/cassandra/hs_err_1371626058.log -ea > -javaagent:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jamm-0.2.5.jar -XX:+UseThreadPriorities > -XX:ThreadPriorityPolicy=42 -Xms4004M -Xmx4004M -Xmn800M > -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Xss180k -XX:+UseParNewGC > -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+CMSParallelRemarkEnabled -XX:SurvivorRatio=8 > -XX:MaxTenuringThreshold=1 -XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=75 > -XX:+UseCMSInitiatingOccupancyOnly -XX:+UseTLAB > -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=7199 > -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false > -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false > org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon > > Is it normal to have two processes like this? 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