DFRA already deletes old logs, you do not necessarily have to have a cron job.
You can use RollingFileAppender to limit the max file size, and number of log files to keep around. Check out conf/log4j.properties. Enis On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 7:22 AM, haosdent <haosd...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yep, I use INFO level. Let me think about this later. If I found a better > way, I would open a issue and record it. Thanks for your great help. @tedyu > > > On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 9:49 PM, Ted Yu <yuzhih...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > If log grows so fast that disk space is to be exhausted, verbosity should > > be lowered. > > > > Do you turn on DEBUG logging ? > > > > Cheers > > > > On Mar 18, 2014, at 6:08 AM, haosdent <haosd...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Thanks for your reply. DailyRollingFileAppender and a cron job could > > works > > > in normal scenario. But sometimes log grow too fast, or disk space may > > use > > > by other applications. Is there a way make Log more "smart" and choose > > > policy according to current disk space? > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 8:49 PM, Ted Yu <yuzhih...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > >> Can you utilize > > >> > > > http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/apidocs/org/apache/log4j/DailyRollingFileAppender.html > > ? > > >> > > >> And have a cron job cleanup old logs ? > > >> > > >> Cheers > > >> > > >> On Mar 18, 2014, at 5:29 AM, haosdent <haosd...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> > > >>> Sometimes the call of Log.xxx couldn't return if the disk partition > of > > >> Log > > >>> path is full. And HBase would hang because of this. So I think if > there > > >> is > > >>> a better way to handle too much log. For example, through a > > configuration > > >>> item in hbase-site.xml, we could delete the old logs periodically or > > >> delete > > >>> old logs when this disk didn't have enough space. > > >>> > > >>> I think HBase hang when disk space isn't enough is unacceptable. > > Looking > > >>> forward your ideas. Thanks in advance. > > >>> > > >>> -- > > >>> Best Regards, > > >>> Haosdent Huang > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Best Regards, > > > Haosdent Huang > > > > > > -- > Best Regards, > Haosdent Huang >
