Brandon, we should fix the wording. I'm glad you brought it up! Thanks. -Jenn
On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Brandon DeVries <[email protected]> wrote: > Mark, > > It does make sense... But since that didn't quite line up with the > definition from the guide, I wanted to be sure. I ask because I have a > report of the disk filling unbounded regardless of the configured > percentage. I'm trying to replicate the issue, but I wanted to make sure > how it was intended to work first. Thanks. > > Brandon > > On Mon, Jul 6, 2015, 4:15 PM Mark Payne <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Brandon, >> >> That property does not indicate how much disk space can be used by the >> archive, but rather how much >> disk space is allowed to be used before data in the archive is destroyed. >> >> So, for example, if that property is set to 80%, and the disk reaches 80% >> full, the oldest entries in the archive >> will start getting deleted, even if the content repository and the >> archive use only say 5% of the disk space. >> >> It is a way to indicate that you'd like to archive, but you don't want to >> take any chance on the archiving filling >> up the disk space. Does that make sense? >> >> Thanks >> -Mark >> >> ________________________________ >> > From: [email protected] >> > Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2015 14:11:53 +0000 >> > Subject: nifi.content.repository.archive.max.usage.percentage >> > To: [email protected] >> > >> > >> > All, >> > >> > I want to make sure I understand the usage of the property >> > nifi.content.repository.archive.max.usage.percentage. From the admin >> > guide[1]: >> > >> > If archiving is enabled (see nifi.content.repository.archive.enabled >> > below), then this property also must have a value to indicate the >> > maximum percentage of disk space that may be used for archiving. It is >> > blank by default. >> > >> > Does this mean that the specified percentage is used *exclusively* for >> > archiving, Or does it mean that the the size of the content repo >> > (active + archive) shouldn't exceed the specified percentage? Or >> > something else entirely... Thanks. >> > >> > [1] >> > >> http://nifi.incubator.apache.org/docs/nifi-docs/html/administration-guide.html >> > >> > Brandon >> > >> > >
