You can control the limit of these cache files, the default is 10GB (value of 
10737418240L): Try changing local.cache.size or 
mapreduce.tasktracker.cache.local.size in mapred-site.xml

Thanks,
+Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
Hortonworks Inc.
http://hortonworks.com/

On Mar 25, 2013, at 5:16 PM, Jean-Marc Spaggiari wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Each time my MR job is run, a directory is created on the TaskTracker
> under mapred/local/taskTracker/hadoop/distcache (based on my
> configuration).
> 
> I looked at the directory today, and it's hosting thousands of
> directories and more than 8GB of data there.
> 
> Is there a way to automatically delete this directory when the job is done?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> JM

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