Re: Cassandra uses more memory than Xmx

2010-07-02 Thread Peter Schuller
> Thank you, actually the mmap uses my memory. But is there a way to limit the > memory usage of mmap? Because the memory usage of Cassandra goes incredible > high (~7Gb on a 8Gb machine). On 64 bit platforms you don't have to worry about the total virtual memory size of the process. If you mean t

Re: Cassandra uses more memory than Xmx

2010-07-02 Thread György Dózsa
Thank you, actually the mmap uses my memory. But is there a way to limit the memory usage of mmap? Because the memory usage of Cassandra goes incredible high (~7Gb on a 8Gb machine). Thx Dozsy 2010/6/16 Jonathan Ellis > you're just seeing address space used by mmap, not actually > allocated-by-

Re: Cassandra uses more memory than Xmx

2010-06-16 Thread Jonathan Ellis
you're just seeing address space used by mmap, not actually allocated-by-the-jvm memory. On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 7:02 AM, György Dózsa wrote: > Hi, > I have a Cassandra cluster and I set java Xmx to 2G in cassandra.in.sh in > every node, but the memory usage of cassandra daemon is 3 or 4 times of

Cassandra uses more memory than Xmx

2010-06-16 Thread György Dózsa
Hi, I have a Cassandra cluster and I set java Xmx to 2G in cassandra.in.sh in every node, but the memory usage of cassandra daemon is 3 or 4 times of that (so 6-8 Gb). Have you got any idea to decrease the memory usage of cassandra? There are 4 nodes in the cluster and the system has approx 1000