Cassandra process fails with error "There Is Insufficient Memory For The Java Runtime Environment To Continue"

Cassandra process fails with error "There Is Insufficient Memory For The Java Runtime Environment To Continue" (Doc ID 2063766.1)

Last updated on NOVEMBER 02, 2015

Applies to:

Linux OS - Version Oracle Linux 5.1 to Oracle Linux 6.6 [Release OL5U1 to OL6U6]
Linux x86-64
Linux x86

Cassandra fails to allocate memory for Java process. Below error is visible from /var/log/cassandra/system.log

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