On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Robert J Berger <[email protected]> wrote:
> Looks like I have something not configured particularly well so that > mapred/local/taskTracker/archive is a local filesystem and its filling > things up. > Configure the size of the distributed cache on each node using local.cache.size, which defaults to 10gb. > Is it ok to delete mapred/local/taskTracker/archive/* at the Unix level? Or > is there some other way to force that to be deleted. If you restart the task tracker, I believe it will delete it. You shouldn't delete it behind the scenes, because you'll cause failures for any running tasks and confuse the task tracker with what it has stored. > I can't really restart my hadoop cluster just to fix this right n ow. I'm > running hadoop 0.20.1. I'd highly recommend you upgrade to 0.20.203.0. -- Owen
