This sounds like you're running a query that consumes a lot of memory. Are you by chance querying a very large partition or not bounding your query?
I'd also recommend upgrading to 2.1.15, 2.1.0 is very old and has quite a few bugs. On 3 October 2016 at 17:08, INDRANIL BASU <indranil...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hello All, > > > > I am getting the below error repeatedly in the system log of C* 2.1.0 > > WARN [SharedPool-Worker-64] 2016-09-27 00:43:35,835 > SliceQueryFilter.java:236 - Read 0 live and 1923 tombstoned cells in > test_schema.test_cf.test_cf_col1_idx (see tombstone_warn_threshold). 5000 > columns was requested, slices=[-], delInfo={deletedAt=-9223372036854775808, > localDeletion=2147483647} > > After that NullPointer Exception and finally OOM > > ERROR [CompactionExecutor:6287] 2016-09-29 22:09:13,546 > CassandraDaemon.java:166 - Exception in thread Thread[CompactionExecutor: > 6287,1,main] > java.lang.NullPointerException: null > at org.apache.cassandra.service.CacheService$ > KeyCacheSerializer.serialize(CacheService.java:475) > ~[apache-cassandra-2.1.0.jar:2.1.0] > at org.apache.cassandra.service.CacheService$ > KeyCacheSerializer.serialize(CacheService.java:463) > ~[apache-cassandra-2.1.0.jar:2.1.0] > at org.apache.cassandra.cache.AutoSavingCache$Writer. > saveCache(AutoSavingCache.java:225) ~[apache-cassandra-2.1.0.jar:2.1.0] > at org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.CompactionManager$ > 11.run(CompactionManager.java:1061) ~[apache-cassandra-2.1.0.jar:2.1.0] > at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown > Source) ~[na:1.7.0_80] > at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source) > ~[na:1.7.0_80] > at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown > Source) [na:1.7.0_80] > at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown > Source) [na:1.7.0_80] > at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) [na:1.7.0_80] > ERROR [CompactionExecutor:9712] 2016-10-01 10:09:13,871 > CassandraDaemon.java:166 - Exception in thread Thread[CompactionExecutor: > 9712,1,main] > java.lang.NullPointerException: null > ERROR [CompactionExecutor:10070] 2016-10-01 14:09:14,154 > CassandraDaemon.java:166 - Exception in thread Thread[CompactionExecutor: > 10070,1,main] > java.lang.NullPointerException: null > ERROR [CompactionExecutor:10413] 2016-10-01 18:09:14,265 > CassandraDaemon.java:166 - Exception in thread Thread[CompactionExecutor: > 10413,1,main] > java.lang.NullPointerException: null > ERROR [MemtableFlushWriter:2396] 2016-10-01 20:28:27,425 > CassandraDaemon.java:166 - Exception in thread Thread[MemtableFlushWriter: > 2396,5,main] > java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: unable to create new native thread > at java.lang.Thread.start0(Native Method) ~[na:1.7.0_80] > at java.lang.Thread.start(Unknown Source) ~[na:1.7.0_80] > at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.addWorker(Unknown > Source) ~[na:1.7.0_80] > at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.processWorkerExit(Unknown > Source) ~[na:1.7.0_80] > at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown > Source) ~[na:1.7.0_80] > at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown > Source) ~[na:1.7.0_80] > at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) ~[na:1.7.0_80] > > -- IB > > > > > > -- Kurt Greaves k...@instaclustr.com www.instaclustr.com