2010/8/2 Peter Schuller <peter.schuller@infidyne.com>
> > First, Cassandra suddenly dies during compaction. Java core dump says
> that
> > the last thread run was "COMPACTION-POOL:1".
> > I suspect that my business logic could lead size of columns in a column
> > family per a row to be greater than two gigabytes. (but i couldn't
> confirm
> > it yet)
>
> Are you running out of memory (java heap)? If you're running cassandra
> with default options, it will be running with
> -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError
>
> Have you checked the cassandra system.log for garbage collection
> messages? What is in the last minute or two of logs?
>
> --
> / Peter Schuller
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