I'm having this same problem. I had replication enabled but have since been disabled. However oldWALs still grows. There are so many files in there that running "hadoop fs -ls /hbase/oldWALs" runs out of memory.
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 9:27 AM, Nishanth S <nishanth.2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Do you have replication turned on in hbase and if so is your slave > consuming the replicated data?. > > -Nishanth > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 10:19 AM, Madeleine Piffaretti < > mpiffare...@powerspace.com> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > We are running out of space in our small hadoop cluster so I was checking > > disk usage on HDFS and I saw that most of the space was occupied by the* > > /hbase/oldWALs* folder. > > > > I have checked in the "HBase Definitive Book" and others books, web-site > > and I have also search my issue on google but I didn't find a proper > > response... > > > > So I would like to know what does this folder, what is use for and also > how > > can I free space from this folder without breaking everything... > > > > > > If it's related to a specific version... our cluster is under > > 5.3.0-1.cdh5.3.0.p0.30 from cloudera (hbase 0.98.6). > > > > Thx for your help! > > >
