Thank you very much for your answers !

That's a surprise ! The VolatileContentRepository seemed to answer
perfectly our need to treat a big amount of data with low resources and
especially low I/O on mounted disks, with non critical data and potential
data loss authorized.

I just tried your solution @Mark mounting a tmpfs and FileSystemRepository
(on 1.11.4), but it seems like for the same amount of data and same RAM
space used, the VolatileContentRepository used a constant <5% of space,
while the FileSystemRepository was using a very unstable amount of space,
frequently running out of space. (I must add that we don't store any
archive, nifi.content.repository.archive.enabled=false). Maybe am I missing
a configuration that consumes a lot of space with the FileSystemRepository ?

Stateless NiFi sounds very interesting ! Just had a look at pvillard's demo
(https://github.com/pvillard31/nifi-stateless-demo) and the framework's
readme (
https://github.com/apache/nifi/tree/master/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-framework-bundle/nifi-framework/nifi-stateless),
but do you have any more resources about it ? I would like to understand a
little bit more what differs from the standard framework and how it can fit
our use case.

Have a nice day,
Matthieu


Le ven. 23 juil. 2021 à 17:20, Joe Witt <[email protected]> a écrit :

> It seems like any use case that we previously thought VolatileContentRepo
> would be good for now we'd say Stateless NiFi is a dramatically better
> approach.
>
> We need to doc this better but the capability is there now for sure.
>
> On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 8:13 AM Mark Payne <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Matthieu,
>>
>> I would highly recommend against using VolatileContentRepository. You’re
>> the first one I’ve heard of using it in a few years. Typically, the
>> FileSystemRepository is sufficient. If you truly want to run with the
>> content in RAM I would recommend creating a RAM Disk and pointing the
>> FileSystemRepository to that.
>>
>> Thanks
>> -Mark
>>
>>
>> On Jul 21, 2021, at 10:31 AM, Matthieu Ré <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Chris, thank you for your quick response
>>
>> I tried the flow with 1.13.2 and 1.13.1, and 1.14.0 just before the first
>> RC and it still had the problem, so I am not sure if this is related to the
>> session handling you pointed out, that has been fixed in 1.13.2
>>
>> Le mer. 21 juil. 2021 à 16:22, Chris Sampson <[email protected]>
>> a écrit :
>>
>>> 1.13.1 was known to have problems with session handling - see the
>>> Release Note "lowlights" for 1.13.1 [1]
>>>
>>> It is recommended to upgrade to version 1.13.2 (or the latest 1.14.0).
>>> If you can't upgrade then 1.13.0 would be better than 1.13.1.
>>>
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NIFI/Release+Notes#ReleaseNotes-Version1.13.1
>>>
>>> ---
>>> *Chris Sampson*
>>> IT Consultant
>>> [email protected]
>>> <https://www.naimuri.com/>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, 21 Jul 2021 at 15:14, Matthieu Ré <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Currently using NiFi 1.11.4, we face a blocking issue trying to switch
>>>> to NiFi 1.13.1+ due to the VolatileContentRepository : some processors we
>>>> use (and probably others that we didn't try) were not able to process
>>>> flowfiles, such as MargeRecord, QueryRecord or SplitJson (logs are in the 
>>>> Jira
>>>> ticket NiFi-8760 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-8760>).
>>>>
>>>> I wanted to know if any of you guys are able to reproduce the issue,
>>>> and if this is not a misconfiguration from our side. The nifi.properties
>>>> and flow.xml.gz used are available in the ticket. If I am not missing
>>>> anything, we could identify that the issue could come from this commit
>>>> <https://github.com/apache/nifi/commit/528fce2407d092d4ced1a58fcc14d0bc6e660b89>
>>>>  since
>>>> it appeared with the 1.13.1 and the flow is working fine with 1.13.0.
>>>>
>>>> Open to contribute as much as I can if you confirm that this is not due
>>>> to a misconfiguration..
>>>>
>>>> Thanks !
>>>> Matthieu
>>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Matthieu RÉ
>> Data Scientist - Machine Learning Engineer - Dassault Systèmes
>>
>> ENSIIE, M2 AIC (Université Paris-Saclay)
>>
>> Tel: 0631609755
>>
>> Email: [email protected]
>>
>>
>>

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