Yes this is one way. Another way could be to look into the logs of the running TaskManagers. They should contain the path of the blob store directory.
Cheers, Till On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 12:04 PM Kumar Bolar, Harshith <hk...@arity.com> wrote: > Is there any way to figure out which one is being run on the TaskManager? > Would it be safe to assume that it is the latest directory created? > > > > Regards, > > Harshith > > > > *From: *Till Rohrmann <trohrm...@apache.org> > *Date: *Thursday, 28 February 2019 at 3:28 PM > *To: *Harshith Kumar Bolar <hk...@arity.com> > *Cc: *user <user@flink.apache.org> > *Subject: *[External] Re: Re: What are blobstore files and why do they > keep filling up /tmp directory? > > > > Yes, at the moment this does not happen automatically. When deleting the > directories you have to be careful not to delete the directory of a running > TaskManager. > > > > Cheers, > > Till > > > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 6:29 PM Kumar Bolar, Harshith <hk...@arity.com> > wrote: > > Thanks Till, > > > > It appears to occur when a task manager crashes and restarts – A new > blob-store directory gets created and the old one remains as is, and this > piles up over time. Should these **old** blob-stores be manually cleared > every time a task manager crashes and restarts? > > > > Regards, > > Harshith > > > > *From: *Till Rohrmann <trohrm...@apache.org> > *Date: *Tuesday, 26 February 2019 at 4:12 PM > *To: *Harshith Kumar Bolar <hk...@arity.com> > *Cc: *user <user@flink.apache.org> > *Subject: *[External] Re: What are blobstore files and why do they keep > filling up /tmp directory? > > > > Hi Harshith, > > > > the blob store files are necessary to distribute the Flink job in your > cluster. After the job has been completed, they should be cleaned up. Only > in the case of cluster crashes the clean up should not happen. Since Flink > 1.4.2 is no longer actively supported, I would suggest to upgrade to the > latest Flink version and to check whether the problem still occurs. > > > > Cheers, > > Till > > > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 2:48 AM Kumar Bolar, Harshith <hk...@arity.com> > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > We're running Flink on a standalone five node cluster. The /tmp/ directory > keeps filling with directories starting with blobstore--*. These > directories are very large (approx 1 GB) and fill up the space very quickly > and the jobs fail with a No space left of device error. The files in these > directories appear to be some form of binary representation of the jobs > that are running on the cluster. > > What are these files and how do I take care of cleaning them so they don't > fill up /tmp/ causing jobs to fail? > > Flink version: 1.4.2 > > > > Thanks, > > Harshith > >
