Does kafka pre-allocate 1GB for each segment? It shows that these segment
files are all open and used by kafka broker.

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 4:14 PM, xiaoyu wang <xiaoyu.w...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Jun,
>
> this does not seem to be a du problem because after restarting brokers, du
> and ls show the same file size.
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Jun Rao <jun...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hmm, this seems like an issue with du.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Jun
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 3:17 PM, xiaoyu wang <xiaoyu.w...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Here is a sample. The highlighted lines are those showing different
>> sizes
>> > in du and ls
>> >
>> > *du output
>> > *
>> > 513M    ./00000001197773741184.kafka
>> > 1.0G    ./00000001200458096891.kafka
>> > 1.0G    ./00000001200994968784.kafka
>> > 1.0G    ./00000001201531839884.kafka
>> > 1.0G    ./00000001202068711094.kafka
>> > 513M    ./00000001011479389046.kafka
>> >
>> > *ls output
>> > *
>> > -rw-r--r--  1 kafka kafka 536871053 Aug  8 13:01
>> 00000001197773741184.kafka
>> > -rw-r--r--  1 kafka kafka 536871893 Aug  8 13:36
>> 00000001200458096891.kafka
>> > -rw-r--r--  1 kafka kafka 536871100 Aug  8 13:45
>> 00000001200994968784.kafka
>> > -rw-r--r--  1 kafka kafka 536871210 Aug  8 13:49
>> 00000001201531839884.kafka
>> > -rw-r--r--  1 kafka kafka 536871063 Aug  8 14:00
>> 00000001202068711094.kafka
>> > -rw-r--r--  1 kafka kafka 536871139 Aug  6 07:02
>> 00000001011479389046.kafka
>> >
>> > On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Joel Koshy <jjkosh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > > The mailing list does not accept attachments - you will need to either
>> > > paste here or externally, say on gist.
>> > >
>> > > Thanks,
>> > >
>> > > Joel
>> > >
>> > > On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 2:52 PM, xiaoyu wang <xiaoyu.w...@gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > Neha,
>> > > >
>> > > > I have attached the du and ls output for one of the partitions.
>> Looks
>> > > like
>> > > > for some segments, du is showing 1GB while ls shows 513MB. Let me
>> know
>> > if
>> > > > you need additional info.
>> > > >
>> > > > Thanks,
>> > > >
>> > > > -Xiaoyu
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Neha Narkhede <
>> > neha.narkh...@gmail.com
>> > > >wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > >> Xiaoyu,
>> > > >>
>> > > >> Please could you paste the log statements that specify which files
>> are
>> > > >> deleted by the broker and also the detailed output by du on the
>> Kafka
>> > > >> log directory ?
>> > > >> If the broker says it has garbage collected some log segments,
>> space
>> > > >> should free up.
>> > > >>
>> > > >> Thanks,
>> > > >> Neha
>> > > >>
>> > > >> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 12:22 PM, xiaoyu wang <
>> xiaoyu.w...@gmail.com>
>> > > >> wrote:
>> > > >> > Hi all,
>> > > >> >
>> > > >> > I am running kafka-0.7.0 and found that even though expired
>> segments
>> > > are
>> > > >> > deleted by broker, the disk space is not released. So, du shows
>> > that a
>> > > >> > partition is 450 GB, but the total size of the files in the
>> > partition
>> > > is
>> > > >> > only about 250GB. Is this a bug? We are using raid10.
>> > > >> >
>> > > >> > Thanks,
>> > > >> >
>> > > >> > -Xiaoyu
>> > > >>
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > >
>> >
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