On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 8:23 AM, Tom Arnfeld <[email protected]> wrote: > If I try and manually remove the directory mentioned, it works fine. Is > this a known issue, or should I do a little more debugging? I've not tried > to reproduce it under specific conditions yet. > > This is surprising. GC does a recursive directory removal (see os::rmdir() in stout) using post-order traversal. Definitely some debugging is in order to see which directory failed and why. Does your sandbox contain any special files (other than directories and files) like mounts, devices etc?
> As a side note, should mesos perhaps have some kind of retry mechanism for > GC? Also, will GC still run for an executor if the slave restarts after an > executor terminates but before the GC process runs? > I don't know what the error was above but I doubt a retry would've helped here. And yes GC runs for a terminated executor when slave restarts.
