[CASSANDRA-2142] Add "reduce memory usage because I tuned things poorly" feature

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.7.1
• Labels: ponies
• Assignee: Jonathan Ellis
• Reporter: Jonathan Ellis

Authors

Jonathan Ellis

Reviewers

Brandon Williams

• Created: 08/Feb/11 20:35
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:33
• Resolved: 09/Feb/11 21:26

Description

Users frequently create too many columnfamilies, set the memtable thresholds too high (or adjust throughput while ignoring operations), and/or set caching thresholds too high. Then their server OOMs and they tell their friends Cassandra sucks.