We are getting a OOM when adding a new node to an existing cluster. In the heapdump we found that this thread caused the OutOfMemory exception:
"SharedPool-Worker-10" daemon prio=5 tid=440 RUNNABLE at java.lang.OutOfMemoryError.<init>(OutOfMemoryError.java:48) at java.nio.HeapByteBuffer.<init>(HeapByteBuffer.java:57) at java.nio.ByteBuffer.allocate(ByteBuffer.java:331) at org.apache.cassandra.utils.memory.SlabAllocator.getRegion(SlabAllocator.java:137) at org.apache.cassandra.utils.memory.SlabAllocator.allocate(SlabAllocator.java:97) at org.apache.cassandra.utils.memory.ContextAllocator.allocate(ContextAllocator.java:57) at org.apache.cassandra.utils.memory.ContextAllocator.clone(ContextAllocator.java:47) Local Variable: java.nio.HeapByteBuffer#3483982 at org.apache.cassandra.utils.memory.MemtableBufferAllocator.clone(MemtableBufferAllocator.java:61) at org.apache.cassandra.db.Memtable.put(Memtable.java:191) Local Variable: org.apache.cassandra.db.ArrayBackedSortedColumns#26 Local Variable: org.apache.cassandra.db.AtomicBTreeColumns#138773 at org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.apply(ColumnFamilyStore.java:1180) at org.apache.cassandra.db.Keyspace.apply(Keyspace.java:385) Local Variable: org.apache.cassandra.db.BufferDecoratedKey#152828 Local Variable: org.apache.cassandra.db.commitlog.ReplayPosition#8 Local Variable: java.util.Collections$1#6 at org.apache.cassandra.db.Keyspace.apply(Keyspace.java:348) at org.apache.cassandra.db.Mutation.apply(Mutation.java:214) at org.apache.cassandra.db.MutationVerbHandler.doVerb(MutationVerbHandler.java:54) Local Variable: java.net.Inet4Address#208 at org.apache.cassandra.net.MessageDeliveryTask.run(MessageDeliveryTask.java:62) Local Variable: org.apache.cassandra.net.MessageDeliveryTask#55 at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471) Local Variable: java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter#70 at org.apache.cassandra.concurrent.AbstractTracingAwareExecutorService$FutureTask.run(AbstractTracingAwareExecutorService.java:164) at org.apache.cassandra.concurrent.SEPWorker.run(SEPWorker.java:105) Local Variable: org.apache.cassandra.concurrent.AbstractTracingAwareExecutorService$FutureTask#9 Local Variable: org.apache.cassandra.concurrent.SEPWorker#34 at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) We are using Oracle (and tried with OpenJDK before): java version "1.7.0_76" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_76-b13) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.76-b04, mixed mode) Best regards, Nathan