Yes, that is how I do. Though 1 month is too long, I keep it just 2 days. Thanks, Vinod
http://blog.vinodsingh.com/ On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Ruben de Vries <ruben.devr...@hyves.nl>wrote: > So I should write a job which cleans up 1 month old results or something > like that? > > From: Vinod Singh [mailto:vi...@vinodsingh.com] > Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 10:35 AM > To: user@hive.apache.org > Subject: Re: Hive scratch dir not cleaning up > > 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> > >
