[CASSANDRA-7573] Cassandra 2.0.9 with IBM Java 7 crashes during start up

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Not A Problem

Environment

*Operating system: Linux AMD64, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
release 6.5 (Santiago) 2.6.32-431.21.1.el6.x86_64
*JDK full version: pxa6470_27sr1-20140411_01(SR1) and
pxa6470sr7-20140410_01(SR7)
java version "1.7.0"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build pxa6470_27sr1-20140411_01(SR1))
IBM J9 VM (build 2.7, JRE 1.7.0 Linux amd64-64 Compressed References 20140410_195893 (JIT enabled, AOT enabled)
J9VM - R27_Java727_SR1_20140410_1931_B195893
JIT - tr.r13.java_20140410_61421
GC - R27_Java727_SR1_20140410_1931_B195893_CMPRSS
J9CL - 20140410_195893)
JCL - 20140409_01 based on Oracle 7u55-b13

• Severity: Normal
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Jason Plurad
• Created: 18/Jul/14 21:21
• Updated: 25/Jul/21 20:45
• Resolved: 24/Jul/14 18:22

Description

Cassandra crashes during start up when using IBM Java 7 and generates a core dump.

A workaround is to avoid the JNI native compressor by changing LZ4Factory.fastestInstance() to LZ4Factory.fastestJavaInstance() in src/java/org/apache/cassandra/transport/FrameCompressor.java and
src/java/org/apache/cassandra/io/compress/LZ4Compressor.java

I opened up an issue against lz4-java also at https://github.com/jpountz/lz4-java/issues/42

Issue Links

• is fixed by: CASSANDRA-7039 DirectByteBuffer compatible LZ4 methods