Thanks for the quick response, Hari! We are using version 1.4.0 of Flume.
The contents and sizes of the checkpoint directory are as below: $ ls -lh total 1.2G -rw-r--r-- 1 flume flume 1.2G Jan 29 17:34 checkpoint -rw-r--r-- 1 flume flume 25 Jan 29 17:34 checkpoint.meta -rw-r--r-- 1 flume flume 0 Jan 28 07:56 in_use.lock -rw-r--r-- 1 flume flume 32 Jan 29 17:34 inflightputs -rw-r--r-- 1 flume flume 32 Jan 29 17:34 inflighttakes Thanks, Umesh ________________________________ From: Hari Shreedharan [hshreedha...@cloudera.com] Sent: 29 January 2014 17:22 To: user@flume.apache.org Subject: Re: checkpoint lifecycle The checkpoint file itself should be fixed size though other files in that directory may vary in size. What version of flume are you using? Newer versions should have more files in that directory. On Wednesday, January 29, 2014, Umesh Telang <umesh.tel...@bbc.co.uk<mailto:umesh.tel...@bbc.co.uk>> wrote: Hello, Under a file channels checkpoint directory, I see the following files: checkpoint checkpoint.meta I wanted to know whether the size of the checkpoint file should reach a steady state if the amount and rate of input to the file chain remains the same. My understanding is that the checkpoint file is associate with the write ahead log. Is this something that continues to grow indefinitely? Or is there some lifecycle management that cleans out very old entries from the write ahead log? If not, is there some strategy that we should employ to manage the size of the checkpoint file (in our case, it's currently over 1GB after 2 days' operation). Thanks for any advice on this. Kind regards, Umesh ---------------------------- http://www.bbc.co.uk This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically stated. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system. Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it and notify the sender immediately. Please note that the BBC monitors e-mails sent or received. Further communication will signify your consent to this. --------------------- ---------------------------- http://www.bbc.co.uk This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically stated. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system. Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it and notify the sender immediately. Please note that the BBC monitors e-mails sent or received. Further communication will signify your consent to this. ---------------------
