Hi all,
I've been experiencing a really weird behavior with Flume, basically my
sinks weren't working so data started accumulating in the file channels,
which caused them to grow in number of files.
When I detect that I stop the agent, stop the source and tried to start
it so I could drain the channel, but I saw log replaying skipping the
events.
After some read I move the checkpoint folder (with the agent stopped),
so it will be empty in the next start, then the replay started taking
into account the old log files in the channel, but ended up creating a
new one and not doing anything with the rest, so right now I have around
20 log file in the channels that weight 1.6 GB each and Flume is not
taking care of them apparently.
Of course for the replay to work I needed to increase the
transactionCapacity of the channel
agent-hdfssink.channels.cn.type = file
agent-hdfssink.channels.cn.checkpointDir = /var/spool/flume/n/checkpoint
agent-hdfssink.channels.cn.dataDirs = /var/spool/flume/ln/data
agent-hdfssink.channels.cn.transactionCapacity = 1000
agent-hdfssink.channels.cn.capacity = 6000000
The kind of sink I'm using is HDFS, my question is if this is normal
behavior and if there is any way to make flume send this data, as it
seems it doesn't take care of the older log files.
I've also made a try moving everything outside of the channel and just
letting there a file with its metadata (same result) and no errors in
any case :S.
Thanks in advance for any help
Cheers,
Borja
