We don't have other things running on these boxes and C* is consuming all the memory.
Will try to upgrade to 2.1.3 and if won't help downgrade to 2.1.2. — Michał On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 2:39 AM, Jacob Rhoden <jacob.rho...@me.com> wrote: > Are you tweaking the "nice" priority on Cassandra? (Type: man nice) if you > don't know much about it. Certainly improving cassandra's nice score becomes > important when you have other things running on the server like scheduled > jobs of people logging in to the server and doing things. > ______________________________ > Sent from iPhone >> On 19 Feb 2015, at 5:28 am, Michał Łowicki <mlowi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Couple of times a day 2 out of 4 members cluster nodes are killed >> >> root@db4:~# dmesg | grep -i oom >> [4811135.792657] [ pid ] uid tgid total_vm rss cpu oom_adj >> oom_score_adj name >> [6559049.307293] java invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x201da, order=0, >> oom_adj=0, oom_score_adj=0 >> >> Nodes are using 8GB heap (confirmed with *nodetool info*) and aren't using >> row cache. >> >> Noticed that couple of times a day used RSS is growing really fast within >> couple of minutes and I see CPU spikes at the same time - >> https://www.dropbox.com/s/khco2kdp4qdzjit/Screenshot%202015-02-18%2015.10.54.png?dl=0. >> >> Could be related to compaction but after compaction is finished used RSS >> doesn't shrink. Output from pmap when C* process uses 50GB RAM (out of 64GB) >> is available on http://paste.ofcode.org/ZjLUA2dYVuKvJHAk9T3Hjb. At the time >> dump was made heap usage is far below 8GB (~3GB) but total RSS is ~50GB. >> >> Any help will be appreciated. >> >> -- >> BR, >> Michał Łowicki