Hi Gary Xu, Typically the sink would drain the data from the channel, but if the sink/destination is down for a long time, then the channel will fill up to capacity and the source would start throwing errors to the client when this happens.
Thanks, Rufus On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 7:10 PM, XuGary <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thank you Rufus. So if we run flume long time, then some day the capacity > will meet. At that moment we have to stop flume, clean the channel log, > then restart the flume?Thanks,Gary Xu > > > From: [email protected] > > Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 10:29:22 -0800 > > Subject: Re: flume file channel capacity > > To: [email protected] > > > > Hi Gary Xu, > > > > The source to channel transaction will fail when the source tries to > commit > > the set of events to the channel, as the channel goes out of capacity. > > > > Thanks, > > Rufus > > > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 1:18 AM, XuGary <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Hi flume developers, I have one question, for file channel capacity, > > > suppose we use default 1000000, since it is the maximum capacity > number of > > > events of the channel, when No. 1000000+1 event comes, the channel log > will > > > be in recycle? My concern is that we do not want the channel log > becomes > > > unlimited large. Thanks.Regards,Gary Xu > > > > >
