The issue is here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-3902

(My "explanation" before dosn't make sense actually and I don't see a
reason why this should be related to having many state handles.)

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Ufuk Celebi <u...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hey Maciek,
>
> thanks for reporting this. Having files linger around looks like a bug to me.
>
> The idea behind having the recursive flag set to false in the
> AbstractFileStateHandle.discardState() call is that the
> FileStateHandle is actually just a single file and not a directory.
> The second call trying to delete the parent directory only succeeds
> when all other files in that directory have been deleted as well. I
> think this is what sometimes fails with many state handles. For
> RocksDB there is only a single state handle, which works well.
>
> I will open an issue for this and try to reproduce it reliably and then fix 
> it.
>
> – Ufuk
>
>
> On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Maciek Próchniak <m...@touk.pl> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> we have stream job with quite large state (few GB), we're using
>> FSStateBackend and we're storing checkpoints in hdfs.
>> What we observe is that v. often old checkpoints are not discarded properly.
>> In hadoop logs I can see:
>>
>> 2016-05-10 12:21:06,559 INFO BlockStateChange: BLOCK* addToInvalidates:
>> blk_1084791727_11053122 10.10.113.10:50010
>> 2016-05-10 12:21:06,559 INFO org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server: IPC Server
>> handler 9 on 8020, call
>> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.ClientProtocol.delete from 10.10.113.9:49233
>> Call#12337 Retry#0
>> org.apache.hadoop.fs.PathIsNotEmptyDirectoryException:
>> `/flink/checkpoints_test/570d6e67d571c109daab468e5678402b/chk-62 is non
>> empty': Directory is not empty
>>         at
>> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSDirDeleteOp.delete(FSDirDeleteOp.java:85)
>>         at
>> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.delete(FSNamesystem.java:3712)
>>
>> While on flink side (jobmanager log) we don't see any problems:
>> 2016-05-10 12:20:22,636 [Checkpoint Timer] INFO
>> org.apache.flink.runtime.checkpoint.CheckpointCoordinator     - Triggering
>> checkpoint 62 @ 1462875622636
>> 2016-05-10 12:20:32,507 [flink-akka.actor.default-dispatcher-240088] INFO
>> org.apache.flink.runtime.checkpoint.CheckpointCoordinator - Completed
>> checkpoint 62 (in 9843 ms)
>> 2016-05-10 12:20:52,637 [Checkpoint Timer] INFO
>> org.apache.flink.runtime.checkpoint.CheckpointCoordinator     - Triggering
>> checkpoint 63 @ 1462875652637
>> 2016-05-10 12:21:06,563 [flink-akka.actor.default-dispatcher-240028] INFO
>> org.apache.flink.runtime.checkpoint.CheckpointCoordinator - Completed
>> checkpoint 63 (in 13909 ms)
>> 2016-05-10 12:21:22,636 [Checkpoint Timer] INFO
>> org.apache.flink.runtime.checkpoint.CheckpointCoordinator     - Triggering
>> checkpoint 64 @ 1462875682636
>>
>> I see in the code that delete operations in flink are done with recursive
>> flag set to false - but I'm not sure why the contents are not being deleted
>> before?
>> When we were using RocksDB backed we didn't encounter such situation.
>> we're using flink 1.0.1 and hdfs 2.7.2.
>>
>> Do anybody has any idea why this could be happening?
>>
>> thanks,
>> maciek
>>
>>
>>

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