Hive deletes job contents from the scratch directory on completion of the job. Though failed / killed jobs leave data there, which needs to be removed manually.
Thanks, Vinod http://blog.vinodsingh.com/ On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Ruben de Vries <ruben.devr...@hyves.nl>wrote: > Hey Hivers,**** > > ** ** > > I’m almost ready to replace our old hadoop implementation with a > implementation using Hive,**** > > ** ** > > Now I’ve ran into (hopefully) my last problem; my /tmp/hive-hduser dir is > getting kinda big!**** > > It doesn’t seem to cleanup this tmp files, googling for it I run into some > tickets about a cleanup setting, should I enable this with the below > setting?**** > > Why doesn’t it do that by default? Am I the only one somehow racking up a > lot of space with tmp files?**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > <property>**** > > <name>hive.start.cleanup.scratchdir</name>**** > > <value>true</value>**** > > </property>**** >
