[CASSANDRA-3124] java heap limit for nodetool

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.0.1
• Component/s: Tool/nodetool

Environment

not important

• Assignee: Zenek Kraweznik
• Reporter: Zenek Kraweznik

Authors

Zenek Kraweznik

Reviewers

Jonathan Ellis

• Created: 02/Sep/11 12:17
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:32
• Resolved: 13/Oct/11 19:28

Description

by defaull (from debian package)

1. nodetool
   Error occurred during initialization of VM
   Could not reserve enough space for object heap
   Could not create the Java virtual machine.
   #

and:
— /usr/bin/nodetool.old 2011-09-02 14:15:14.228152799 +0200
+++ /usr/bin/nodetool 2011-09-02 14:14:28.745154552 +0200
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
;;
esac

-$JAVA -cp $CLASSPATH -Dstorage-config=$CASSANDRA_CONF \
+$JAVA -Xmx32m -cp $CLASSPATH -Dstorage-config=$CASSANDRA_CONF \
-Dlog4j.configuration=log4j-tools.properties \
org.apache.cassandra.tools.NodeCmd $@

after every upgrade i had to add limit manually. I think it's good idea to add it by default