[CASSANDRA-6260] Cassandra 2.0.1 OutOfMemoryError: Requested array size exceeds VM limit

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.3

Environment

Cassandra server 2.0.1

• Severity: Low
• Assignee: Mikhail Stepura
• Reporter: Prateek

Authors

Mikhail Stepura

Reviewers

Jonathan Ellis

• Created: 28/Oct/13 20:57
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:32
• Resolved: 31/Oct/13 13:43

Description

I am running cassandra 2.0.1 server with cascading client https://github.com/ifesdjeen/cascading-cassandra/ (v 1.0.0-rc6). I am running a problem on restarting one of the nodes in the cassandra cluster. All other nodes in the cluster started properly without any issues. I had originally assigned 8G of RAM to heap space. I tried starting the node with 12G of RAM but it still fails with the following error. This is currently blocking a production release so appreciate your quick response.

[(bloomreach-ami) ubuntu@ip-10-179-26-169 :/mnt/cassandra_latest]# ERROR 20:55:58,738 Exception encountered during startup
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Requested array size exceeds VM limit
at org.apache.cassandra.utils.ByteBufferUtil.read(ByteBufferUtil.java:394)
at org.apache.cassandra.utils.ByteBufferUtil.readWithLength(ByteBufferUtil.java:355)
at org.apache.cassandra.service.CacheService$KeyCacheSerializer.deserialize(CacheService.java:352)
at org.apache.cassandra.cache.AutoSavingCache.loadSaved(AutoSavingCache.java:119)
at org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.<init>(ColumnFamilyStore.java:267)
at org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.createColumnFamilyStore(ColumnFamilyStore.java:411)
at org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.createColumnFamilyStore(ColumnFamilyStore.java:383)
at org.apache.cassandra.db.Keyspace.initCf(Keyspace.java:314)
at org.apache.cassandra.db.Keyspace.<init>(Keyspace.java:268)
at org.apache.cassandra.db.Keyspace.open(Keyspace.java:110)
at org.apache.cassandra.db.Keyspace.open(Keyspace.java:88)
at org.apache.cassandra.db.SystemKeyspace.checkHealth(SystemKeyspace.java:474)
at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.setup(CassandraDaemon.java:226)
at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.activate(CassandraDaemon.java:442)
at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.main(CassandraDaemon.java:485)
INFO 20:55:58,739 Initializing system.schema_triggers
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Requested array size exceeds VM limit
at org.apache.cassandra.utils.ByteBufferUtil.read(ByteBufferUtil.java:394)
at org.apache.cassandra.utils.ByteBufferUtil.readWithLength(ByteBufferUtil.java:355)
at org.apache.cassandra.service.CacheService$KeyCacheSerializer.deserialize(CacheService.java:352)
at org.apache.cassandra.cache.AutoSavingCache.loadSaved(AutoSavingCache.java:119)