Hi,
We are currently using BucketingSink to save data into HDFS in parquet format. But when the flink job was cancelled, we always got Exception in BucketingSink's close method. The datailed exception info is as below: [ERROR] [2017-09-26 20:51:58,893] [org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask] - Error during disposal of stream operator. java.io.InterruptedIOException: Interrupted while waiting for data to be acknowledged by pipeline at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSOutputStream.waitForAckedSeqno(DFSOutputStream.java:2151) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSOutputStream.flushInternal(DFSOutputStream.java:2130) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSOutputStream.closeImpl(DFSOutputStream.java:2266) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSOutputStream.close(DFSOutputStream.java:2236) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSDataOutputStream$PositionCache.close(FSDataOutputStream.java:72) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSDataOutputStream.close(FSDataOutputStream.java:106) at org.apache.parquet.hadoop.ParquetFileWriter.end(ParquetFileWriter.java:643) at org.apache.parquet.hadoop.InternalParquetRecordWriter.close(InternalParquetRecordWriter.java:117) at org.apache.parquet.hadoop.ParquetWriter.close(ParquetWriter.java:301) ....... at org.apache.flink.api.common.functions.util.FunctionUtils.closeFunction(FunctionUtils.java:43) at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.AbstractUdfStreamOperator.dispose(AbstractUdfStreamOperator.java:126) at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.disposeAllOperators(StreamTask.java:429) at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.invoke(StreamTask.java:334) at org.apache.flink.runtime.taskmanager.Task.run(Task.java:702) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) It seems that DFSOutputStream haven't been closed before task thread is force terminated. We found a similar problem in http://apache-flink-user-mailing-list-archive.2336050.n4.nabble.com/Changing-timeout-for-cancel-command-td12601.html , but setting "akka.ask.timeout" to a larger value does not work for us. So how can we make sure the stream is safely closed when cacelling a job? Best, wangsan