[CASSANDRA-13345] Increasing the per thread stack size to atleast 512k

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Incomplete
• Component/s: Local/Config

Environment

Set up details

$ lscpu
Architecture: ppc64le
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 160
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-159
Thread(s) per core: 8
Core(s) per socket: 5
Socket(s): 4
NUMA node(s): 4
Model: 2.1 (pvr 004b 0201)
Model name: POWER8E (raw), altivec supported
CPU max MHz: 3690.0000
CPU min MHz: 2061.0000
L1d cache: 64K
L1i cache: 32K
L2 cache: 512K
L3 cache: 8192K
NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-39
NUMA node1 CPU(s): 40-79
NUMA node16 CPU(s): 80-119
NUMA node17 CPU(s): 120-159

$ cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="16.04.1 LTS (Xenial Xerus)"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS"
VERSION_ID="16.04"
HOME_URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
VERSION_CODENAME=xenial
UBUNTU_CODENAME=xenial

$ arch
ppc64le

$ java -version
openjdk version "1.8.0_121"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_121-8u121-b13-0ubuntu1.16.04.2-b13)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.121-b13, mixed mode)

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Amitkumar Ghatwal
• Created: 17/Mar/17 05:29
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:30
• Resolved: 20/Mar/17 13:17

Description

Hi All,

I followed the below steps

```
$ git clone https://github.com/apache/cassandra.git
$ cd cassandra/
$ ant
$ bin/cassandra -f

The stack size specified is too small, Specify at least 328k
Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.
Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.
```

After getting this , i had to upgrade the thread stack size to 512kb in 'conf/jvm.options'
```
$ git diff conf/jvm.options
diff --git a/conf/jvm.options b/conf/jvm.options
index 49b2196..00c03ce 100644
— a/conf/jvm.options
+++ b/conf/jvm.options
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@
-XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError

1. Per-thread stack size.
   --Xss256k
   +-Xss512k

1. Larger interned string table, for gossip's benefit (CASSANDRA-6410)
   -XX:StringTableSize=1000003
   ```
   Thereafter i was able to start the Cassandra server successfully.
   Could you please consider increasing the stack size to '512k' in 'conf/jvm.options.

Similar to "https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-13300". Let me know if we can increase the stack size in the Apache Cassandra trunk.

Thanks for support provided so far , and let me know

Regards,
Amit