I had same observation. I was trying to collect concise logs to open a JIRA and deleted all the existing logs but NiFi did not generate new logs after cleanup. I had to restart NiFi to generate new logs.
On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 4:57 PM, Russell Bateman <r...@windofkeltia.com> wrote: > James, > > It's the case that, NiFi running, deleting a log file will result in that > file no longer existing and no longer written to again until NiFi is > restarted. This is my observation anyway. > > Hope this observation is useful. > > Russ > > On 08/17/2017 02:11 PM, James McMahon wrote: > > Thank you Joe. I agree and will monitor it closely going forward. I > suspect there were some external factors at play here. > > On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 4:05 PM, Joe Witt <joe.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Ok if 50,000 is the max then i'm doubtful that it ran out. >> >> In the event of exhaustion of allowed open file handle count NiFi will >> run but its behavior will be hard to reason over. That means it >> cannot create any new files or open existing files but can merely >> operate using the handles it already has. It is a situation to avoid. >> >> As far as what actually happened resulting in logfile issues it is not >> easy to tell at this stage but should be monitored for system state >> when it happens again. >> >> Thanks >> >> >> On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 1:02 PM, James McMahon < <jsmcmah...@gmail.com> >> jsmcmah...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > 50,000. >> > Is NiFi robust enough that it can continue to run without the log file >> for >> > write attempts? >> > It is back up and running like a champ now, so I will keep an eye on it. >> > >> > On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 3:40 PM, Joe Witt < <joe.w...@gmail.com> >> joe.w...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> It sounds like a case of exhausted file handles. >> >> >> >> Ulimit -a >> >> >> >> How many open files are allowed for the user nifi runs as? >> >> >> >> On Aug 17, 2017 12:26 PM, "James McMahon" < <jsmcmah...@gmail.com> >> jsmcmah...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> Our nifi instance appeared to be running fine but we noticed that >> there >> >>> were no log files for today in the logs subdirectory. We could not >> find any >> >>> nifi logs for today anywhere on our system. >> >>> >> >>> I was surprised that NiFi continued to run. Has anyone experienced >> such >> >>> behavior? >> >>> >> >>> How is NiFi able to continue to run without a nifi-app.log - do all >> its >> >>> log messages effectively go to bit bucket heaven? >> >>> >> >>> I ultimately did an orderly shutdown via >> >>> service nifi stop >> >>> and an orderly start via >> >>> service nifi start >> >>> after which the log files were there as expected. >> >>> >> >>> Thanks in advance for any insights. -Jim >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> > >> > >> > > > -- NOTICE: This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message.
