Sounds like this: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5706, which is fixed in 1.2.7.
/Janne On 22 Jul 2013, at 20:40, Jason Tyler <jaty...@yahoo-inc.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Since upgrading from 1.1.9 to 1.2.6 over the last week, we've had two > instances where cassandra was unable, but kept trying to restart: > > ////SNIP//// > INFO [main] 2013-07-19 16:12:36,769 AutoSavingCache.java (line 140) reading > saved cache /var/cassandra/caches/SyncCore-CommEvents-KeyCache-b.db > ERROR [main] 2013-07-19 16:12:36,966 CassandraDaemon.java (line 458) > Exception encountered during startup > java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space > at > org.apache.cassandra.utils.ByteBufferUtil.read(ByteBufferUtil.java:394) > at > org.apache.cassandra.utils.ByteBufferUtil.readWithLength(ByteBufferUtil.java:355) > at > org.apache.cassandra.service.CacheService$KeyCacheSerializer.deserialize(CacheService.java:379) > at > org.apache.cassandra.cache.AutoSavingCache.loadSaved(AutoSavingCache.java:145) > at > org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.<init>(ColumnFamilyStore.java:266) > at > org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.createColumnFamilyStore(ColumnFamilyStore.java:382) > at > org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.createColumnFamilyStore(ColumnFamilyStore.java:354) > at org.apache.cassandra.db.Table.initCf(Table.java:329) > at org.apache.cassandra.db.Table.<init>(Table.java:272) > at org.apache.cassandra.db.Table.open(Table.java:109) > at org.apache.cassandra.db.Table.open(Table.java:87) > at > org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.setup(CassandraDaemon.java:271) > at > org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.activate(CassandraDaemon.java:441) > at > org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.main(CassandraDaemon.java:484) > INFO [main] 2013-07-19 16:12:43,288 CassandraDaemon.java (line 118) Logging > initialized > ////SNIP//// > > This is new behavior with 1.2.6. > > Stopping cassandra, moving the offending file, then starting cassandra does > succeed. > > Any config suggestions (key cache config?) to prevent this from happening? > > THX > > > Cheers, > > ~Jason
