[CASSANDRA-5517] Cassandra crashes at start with segmentation fault

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed

Environment

VirtualBox 4.2.6 VM with 4GB RAM, Xubuntu 12.10 as host and guest OS.
Cassandra 1.2.4 installed on guest as Debian package.

• Severity: Low
• Assignee: Eric Evans
• Reporter: Sergey Naumov

Authors

Eric Evans

Reviewers

Jonathan Ellis

• Created: 26/Apr/13 11:57
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:32
• Resolved: 15/Aug/13 19:15

Description

Sometimes Cassandra fails at start with segmentation fault:

1. /usr/sbin/cassandra -f
   xss = -ea -javaajent:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jamm-0.2.5.jar -XX:+UseThreadPriorities -XX:ThreadPriorityPolicy=42 -Xms1024M -Xmx1024M -Xmn100M -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Xss180k
   Segmentation fault

It seems that not only me encountered this bug: http://snapwebsites.org/known-issues/cassandra-crashes-java-segmentation-fault

Solution proposed on this link works.

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: CASSANDRA-5895 JDK7 u40 stack size fixes
• relates to: CASSANDRA-2441 Cassandra crashes with segmentation fault on Debian 5.0 and Ubuntu 10.10