Are the virtual machines? The last time I had this issues was because of VMWare "ballooning". If not, what versions of Cassandra and Java are you using?
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 6:30 PM, Gary Zhao <garyz...@gmail.com> wrote: > BTW, the CPU usage on this node is pretty high, but data size is pretty > small. > > PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES SHR STATE TIME CPU COMMAND > 28674 cassandr 89 25 0 9451M 8970M 525M sleep 32.1H 329% java > > UN 8.92 GB 256 35.4% c2d9d02e-bdb3-47cb-af1b-eabc2eeb503b rack1 > UN 5.32 GB 256 33.1% 874a269f-96bc-4db6-9d15-7cac6771a2ea rack1 > DN 339.94 MB 256 31.5% fba5b071-aee1-451f-ae42-49c3bbe70bbe rack1 > > > On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Gary Zhao <garyz...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello >> >> I have a three nodes cluster. I noticed one node was always down. >> Restarting Cassandra fixes it but it will go down again after a couple of >> days. I'm pretty new to Cassandra so I'm wondering how I should >> troubleshoot it. Logs is as below. >> >> INFO [StorageServiceShutdownHook] 2014-04-28 13:21:05,091 >> ThriftServer.java (line 141) Stop listening to thrift clients >> ERROR [GossipStage:4] 2014-04-28 13:11:59,877 CassandraDaemon.java (line >> 196) Exception in thread Thread[GossipStage:4,5,main] >> java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space >> ERROR [ACCEPT-/10.20.132.44] 2014-04-28 13:06:10,261 >> CassandraDaemon.java (line 196) Exception in thread Thread[ACCEPT-/ >> 10.20.132.44,5,main] >> java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space >> ERROR [GossipStage:3] 2014-04-28 12:54:02,116 CassandraDaemon.java (line >> 196) Exception in thread Thread[GossipStage:3,5,main] >> java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space >> ERROR [GossipStage:2] 2014-04-28 12:52:27,644 CassandraDaemon.java (line >> 196) Exception in thread Thread[GossipStage:2,5,main] >> java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space >> ERROR [Thread-222] 2014-04-28 12:50:18,689 CassandraDaemon.java (line >> 196) Exception in thread Thread[Thread-222,5,main] >> java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space >> ERROR [GossipTasks:1] 2014-04-28 12:47:12,879 CassandraDaemon.java (line >> 196) Exception in thread Thread[GossipTasks:1,5,main] >> java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space >> ERROR [GossipTasks:1] 2014-04-28 13:24:59,113 CassandraDaemon.java (line >> 196) Exception in thread Thread[GossipTasks:1,5,main] >> java.lang.IllegalThreadStateException >> at java.lang.Thread.start(Thread.java:704) >> at >> org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon$2.uncaughtException(CassandraDaemon.java:202) >> at >> org.apache.cassandra.concurrent.DebuggableThreadPoolExecutor.handleOrLog(DebuggableThreadPoolExecutor.java:220) >> at >> org.apache.cassandra.concurrent.DebuggableScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$UncomplainingRunnable.run(DebuggableScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:79) >> at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471) >> at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.runAndReset(FutureTask.java:304) >> at >> java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.access$301(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:178) >> at >> java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:293) >> at >> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) >> at >> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) >> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744) >> INFO [StorageServiceShutdownHook] 2014-04-28 13:25:35,105 Server.java >> (line 181) Stop listening for CQL clients >> INFO [StorageServiceShutdownHook] 2014-04-28 13:25:35,105 Gossiper.java >> (line 1251) Announcing shutdown >> INFO [StorageServiceShutdownHook] 2014-04-28 13:26:12,524 >> MessagingService.java (line 667) Waiting for messaging service to quiesce >> >> Thanks >> Gary >> > >