Re: Back to the futex()? :(

2016-02-06 Thread Will Hayworth
Additionally: this isn't the futex_wait bug (or at least it shouldn't be?). Amazon says that was fixed several kernel versions before mine, which is 4.1.10-17.31.amzn1.x86_64. And the reason my heap is so large is because, per CASSANDRA-9

Back to the futex()? :(

2016-02-06 Thread Will Hayworth
*tl;dr: other than CAS operations, what are the potential sources of lock contention in C*?* Hi all! :) I'm a novice Cassandra and Linux admin who's been preparing a small cluster for production, and I've been seeing something weird. For background: I'm running 3.2.1 on a cluster of 12 EC2 m4.2xla