I'm not able to actually look inside the folder as java runs out of memory trying to do a directory listing...I haven't had more time to look into the problem.
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 12:56 AM, Madeleine Piffaretti < mpiffare...@powerspace.com> wrote: > Hi, > > The replication is not turned on HBase... > Does this folder should be clean regularly? Because I have data from > december 2014... > > > 2015-02-26 1:40 GMT+01:00 Liam Slusser <lslus...@gmail.com>: > > > 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! > > > > > > > > > >
