原因分析：
You are running out of allocted memory for the JAVA VM (128k) is to less.
Modify the line below (..."128k"...) to reach a stack size of at least 160k in the file
picked from :http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11610856/ubuntu-12-04-and-cassandra-install-heapdumponoutofmemoryerror-xss128k [stackover]
编辑文件 cassandra/conf/cassandra-env.sh
找到如下位置：
JVM_OPTS="$JVM_OPTS -Xss180k"
我使用的 mint13 版本，java version "1.6.0_24"， 尝试修改180为250后可以，具体数值，我是不断尝试后得到的