Earlier today, a heap dump was generated on restbase1007.eqiad.wmnet, and the %p format specifier, which was supposed to be expanded to $PID... wasn't.
$ sudo ls -lh /var/lib/cassandra/ total 3.1G drwxr-x--- 2 cassandra cassandra 28K Oct 27 19:02 commitlog drwxr-x--- 161 cassandra cassandra 16K Oct 23 09:14 data -rw------- 1 cassandra cassandra 3.1G Oct 27 11:14 java_%p.hprof drwxr-x--- 2 cassandra cassandra 20K Oct 27 19:24 saved_caches