Philipp Schuegerl created HDFS-7526: ---------------------------------------
Summary: SetReplication OutOfMemoryError Key: HDFS-7526 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-7526 Project: Hadoop HDFS Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 2.3.0 Reporter: Philipp Schuegerl Setting the replication of a HDFS folder recursively can run out of memory. E.g. with a large /var/log directory: hdfs dfs -setrep -R -w 1 /var/log Exception in thread "main" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded at java.util.Arrays.copyOfRange(Arrays.java:2694) at java.lang.String.<init>(String.java:203) at java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1913) at java.net.URI$Parser.substring(URI.java:2850) at java.net.URI$Parser.parse(URI.java:3046) at java.net.URI.<init>(URI.java:753) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path.initialize(Path.java:203) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path.<init>(Path.java:116) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path.<init>(Path.java:94) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.HdfsFileStatus.getFullPath(HdfsFileStatus.java:222) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.HdfsFileStatus.makeQualified(HdfsFileStatus.java:246) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem.listStatusInternal(DistributedFileSystem.java:689) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem.access$600(DistributedFileSystem.java:102) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem$14.doCall(DistributedFileSystem.java:712) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem$14.doCall(DistributedFileSystem.java:708) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystemLinkResolver.resolve(FileSystemLinkResolver.java:81) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem.listStatus(DistributedFileSystem.java:708) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.shell.PathData.getDirectoryContents(PathData.java:268) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.shell.Command.recursePath(Command.java:347) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.shell.Command.processPaths(Command.java:308) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.shell.Command.recursePath(Command.java:347) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.shell.Command.processPaths(Command.java:308) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.shell.Command.recursePath(Command.java:347) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.shell.Command.processPaths(Command.java:308) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.shell.Command.recursePath(Command.java:347) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.shell.Command.processPaths(Command.java:308) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.shell.Command.recursePath(Command.java:347) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.shell.Command.processPaths(Command.java:308) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.shell.Command.processPathArgument(Command.java:278) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.shell.Command.processArgument(Command.java:260) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.shell.Command.processArguments(Command.java:244) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.shell.SetReplication.processArguments(SetReplication.java:76) -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)