Which specific release of 0.98 are you using ? Have you used lsof to see which files were being held onto ?
Thanks On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 7:21 PM, Otis Gospodnetić < otis.gospodne...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Is/was there a known issue with HBase 0.98 "holding onto" files? > > We noticed the used disk space metric going up, up and up and we could not > stop it with major compaction. > But we noticed that if we restart a RegionServer 2 things happen: > 1) its disk usage immediately drops a lot > 2) the disk usage of other RegionServers drops some as well > > Have a look at this chart: > https://apps.sematext.com/spm-reports/s/Ssy4ViFGHq > > At 1:54 we restarted the first RS (blue line) > At 2:03 we restarted the second RS (dark green line) > > Is/was this a known HBase 0.98 issue? > > Thanks, > Otis > -- > Monitoring - Log Management - Alerting - Anomaly Detection > Solr & Elasticsearch Consulting Support Training - http://sematext.com/ >
