When the Cassandra commit log takes up too much disk space, connection issues might occur. The following is an example of an error message for this issue: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Mutation of 33749684 bytes is too large for the maximum size of 33554432.

• Review your application data model and segment the records into smaller units.For example: If your main data set contains 2,000 customer records, segment the data set into four smaller data sets of 500 customer records each.
• As a temporary workaround for the error, in the prconfig.xml file, increase the maximum commit log size in megabytes by specifying the value of the commitlog_segment_size_in_mb property.
  The default maximum commit log size is 32 megabytes.

  For more information, see Changing node settings by modifying the prconfig.xml file.

  For example: <env name=“dnode/yaml/commitlog_segment_size_in_mb” value=“64”/> Increase the maximum commit log size only as a temporary workaround. Permanently increased record writes might have a negative impact on database performance, which can affect system performance.