[CASSANDRA-6052] memory exhaustion

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.1

Environment

Debian, Cassandra 2.0

• Severity: Normal
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: arnaud-lb
• Created: 18/Sep/13 08:38
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:32
• Resolved: 18/Sep/13 09:02

Description

Issuing queries such as "select * from huge_table limit 1000000000" or "copy hugetable to ..." reliably exhausts cassandra's heap space. (In cqlsh, at least.)

The JVM then get stuck in a Full GC loop, GC fails to free anything, cassandra is unresponsive and never recovers.

Issue Links

• duplicates: CASSANDRA-4415 Add cursor API/auto paging to the native CQL protocol