[CASSANDRA-4638] Patch to bin/cassandra to use 64bit JVM if available

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Labels: 64bit linux solaris

Environment

Tested on Solaris 11 with Oracle supplied JVM 1.6 and 1.7

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Bernhard Roth

Reviewers

Eric Evans

• Created: 09/Sep/12 10:09
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:32
• Resolved: 30/Sep/13 15:08

Description

Cassandra uses by default the JAVA binary at $JAVA_HOME/bin and complains at start that the 64bit version should be used.
Well, even if the 64bit JAVA version is installed, cassandra still does not use it.
Attached patch solves this problem by checking if $JAVA_HOME/bin/amd64/java binary exists. If yes, it will be used for cassandra.