[CASSANDRA-1641] auto-guessed memtable sizes are too high

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.7 beta 3
• Severity: Normal
• Assignee: Jonathan Ellis
• Reporter: Jonathan Ellis

Authors

Jonathan Ellis

Reviewers

Brandon Williams

• Created: 21/Oct/10 05:22
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:33
• Resolved: 21/Oct/10 17:10

Description

I've seen two cases now of the memtable sizes being too large, causing OOMing. Too-small memtables hurt performance, but too-large hurts worse when you start GC storming.