Hi, This is a dedicated machine on DO. But i can say I did not have a problem with kafka 7. I just upgraded the macine to 1gig on digi ocean. Same error.
export KAFKA_HEAP_OPTS="-Xmx1G -Xms1G" root@do-kafka-sf-development-20140130195343:/etc/supervisor/conf.d# /var/lib/kafka-0.8.0-src/bin/kafka-server-start.sh /var/lib/kafka-0.8.0-src/config/server.properties OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM warning: INFO: os::commit_memory(0x00000000bad30000, 986513408, 0) failed; error='Cannot allocate memory' (errno=12) # # There is insufficient memory for the Java Runtime Environment to continue. # Native memory allocation (malloc) failed to allocate 986513408 bytes for committing reserved memory. # An error report file with more information is saved as: # /etc/supervisor/conf.d/hs_err_pid11635.log Below is how I install via chef version = '0.8.0' tar -xzf kafka-#{version}-src.tgz cd kafka-#{version}-src ./sbt update ./sbt package ./sbt assembly-package-dependency echo 'KAFKA_JMX_OPTS="-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote=true -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false"' | tee -a /var/lib/kafka-#{version}-src/bin/kafka-run-class.sh echo 'export JMX_PORT=${JMX_PORT:-9999}' | tee -a /var/lib/kafka-#{version}-src/bin/kafka-server-start.sh On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 4:04 AM, Jay Kreps <jay.kr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think this may be more a general java thing. Can you try running any java > class with the same command line options you are using for kafka and > confirm that that also doesn't work. > > -Jay > > On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 11:23 AM, David Montgomery < > davidmontgom...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, <%20us...@kafka.apache.org> > > > > Why oh whhy can I nt start kafka 8? I am on a machine with 512 megs of > ram > > on digi ocean. What does one have to do to get kafka to work? > > > > > > > > root@do-kafka-sf-development-20140130051956: export > > KAFKA_HEAP_OPTS="-Xmx256M -Xms128M > > root@do-kafka-sf-development-20140130051956:/etc/supervisor/conf.d# > > /var/lib/kafka-0.8.0-src/bin/kafka-server-start.sh > > /var/lib/kafka-0.8.0-src/config/server.properties > > OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM warning: INFO: > > os::commit_memory(0x00000000bad30000, 986513408, 0) failed; error='Cannot > > allocate memory' (errno=12) > > # > > # There is insufficient memory for the Java Runtime Environment to > > continue. > > # Native memory allocation (malloc) failed to allocate 986513408 bytes > for > > committing reserved memory. > > # An error report file with more information is saved as: > > # /etc/supervisor/conf.d/hs_err_pid17533.log > > > > > > Thanks > > >