Oracle Linux: Starting Cassandra service fails with error: "There Is Insufficient Memory For The Java Runtime Environment To Continue" (Doc ID 2063766.1)

Last updated on MAY 27, 2020

Applies to:

Linux OS - Version Oracle Linux 5.0 and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Version N/A and later
Linux x86-64
Linux x86

While starting Cassandra service on Oracle Linux it fails on memory allocation with below error visible inside /var/log/cassandra/system.log

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