Thank you very much Matt. I will tune this property to get the behavior we
require. Thanks again. -Jim

On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 2:57 PM, Matt Gilman <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Jim,
>
> Yes, the contain can be archived once the flowfile has exited NiFi. This
> allows the content to be downloaded/viewed from provenance events for that
> flowfile. This behavior can be controlled using the 
> nifi.content.repository.archive.*
> properties [1].
>
> Thanks
>
> Matt
>
> [1] https://nifi.apache.org/docs/nifi-docs/html/administration-guide.html#
> file-system-content-repository-properties
>
> On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 2:46 PM, James McMahon <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Good afternoon. I am running Apache NiFi 0.7.x. This morning I ran a
>> large body of content through my workflow, and my content repo usage as
>> reported by 'df -kh' spiked from less than one gigabyte of used capacity to
>> 40G.
>>
>> My files fully processed without error. My processors and queues now show
>> 0 bytes across the board, including all processor groups.
>>
>> My content repository is still showing 22G usage. My expectation was that
>> it would reduce back down to minimal capacity usage when my workflow
>> completed processing all these files, but it has not.
>>
>> I run nifi on my Linux box as a service. I gracefully stopped the
>> service. Let it sit for a minute or two. Checked my logs. No problems
>> noted. I started nifi again as a service. No errors in the logs. I still
>> find that the content repo disk device shows 22G used capacity.
>>
>> Does the content repository retain content history for a period of time
>> after a flowfile has exited from nifi? Can that be regulated?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your insights.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>
>

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