On Sep 26, 2007, at 9:02 AM, Ted Dunning wrote:
It is decidedly not OK in a near disk full situation. My experience was that HDFS filled the disk (almost) and then these logs made the situationnearly unrecoverable.
If disk is tight, you probably should configure log4j to roll the logs based on size rather than the default of daily. I just created the jira HADOOP-1947 to make it easier to configure the appender and the associated rolling strategy.
-- Owen
