James,
It's the case that, NiFi running, deleting a log file will result in
that file no longer existing and no longer written to again until NiFi
is restarted. This is my observation anyway.
Hope this observation is useful.
Russ
On 08/17/2017 02:11 PM, James McMahon wrote:
Thank you Joe. I agree and will monitor it closely going forward. I
suspect there were some external factors at play here.
On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 4:05 PM, Joe Witt <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Ok if 50,000 is the max then i'm doubtful that it ran out.
In the event of exhaustion of allowed open file handle count NiFi will
run but its behavior will be hard to reason over. That means it
cannot create any new files or open existing files but can merely
operate using the handles it already has. It is a situation to avoid.
As far as what actually happened resulting in logfile issues it is not
easy to tell at this stage but should be monitored for system state
when it happens again.
Thanks
On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 1:02 PM, James McMahon
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 50,000.
> Is NiFi robust enough that it can continue to run without the
log file for
> write attempts?
> It is back up and running like a champ now, so I will keep an
eye on it.
>
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 3:40 PM, Joe Witt <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>> It sounds like a case of exhausted file handles.
>>
>> Ulimit -a
>>
>> How many open files are allowed for the user nifi runs as?
>>
>> On Aug 17, 2017 12:26 PM, "James McMahon" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Our nifi instance appeared to be running fine but we noticed
that there
>>> were no log files for today in the logs subdirectory. We could
not find any
>>> nifi logs for today anywhere on our system.
>>>
>>> I was surprised that NiFi continued to run. Has anyone
experienced such
>>> behavior?
>>>
>>> How is NiFi able to continue to run without a nifi-app.log -
do all its
>>> log messages effectively go to bit bucket heaven?
>>>
>>> I ultimately did an orderly shutdown via
>>> service nifi stop
>>> and an orderly start via
>>> service nifi start
>>> after which the log files were there as expected.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for any insights. -Jim
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>
