Andrew Purtell created HBASE-20554:
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             Summary: "WALs outstanding" message from CleanerChore is noisy
                 Key: HBASE-20554
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-20554
             Project: HBase
          Issue Type: Bug
            Reporter: Andrew Purtell


WARN level "WALs outstanding" from CleanerChore should be DEBUG and are not 
always correct. 

I left a cluster configured for ITBLL (retaining all WALs for post hoc 
analysis) and in the morning found the master log full of "WALs outstanding" 
warnings from CleanerChore. 

Should this really be a warning? Perhaps better logged at DEBUG level.

{quote}
2018-05-09 16:42:03,893 WARN  
[node-1.cluster,16000,1525851521469_ChoreService_2] cleaner.CleanerChore: WALs 
outstanding under hdfs://node-1.cluster/hbase/oldWALs

If someone has configured really long WAL retention then having WALs in oldWALs 
will be normal. 

Also, it seems the warning is sometimes incorrect.

{quote}
2018-05-09 16:42:24,751 WARN  
[node-1.cluster,16000,1525851521469_ChoreService_1] cleaner.CleanerChore: WALs 
outstanding under hdfs://node-1.cluster/hbase/archive
{quote}

There are no WALs under archive/. 

Even at DEBUG level, if it is not correct, then it can lead an operator to be 
concerned about nothing, so better to just remove it.



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