Thanks Brock. I tried spooling directory, if the file dropped in spoolDir was too large, flume also died. There should be a blocking. Will start a standalone script process to drop small files.
Best Regards, Yongkun Wang On 2013/08/19, at 22:08, Brock Noland wrote: In your case I would look at the spooling directory source. On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Wang, Yongkun | Yongkun | BDD <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi, I am testing with apache-flume-1.4.0-bin. I made a naive python script for exec source to do throttling by calling sleep() function. But the sleep() doesn't work when called by exec source. Any ideas about this or do you have some simply solution for throttling instead of a custom source? Flume config: agent.sources = src1 agent.sources.src1.type = exec agent.sources.src1.command = read-file-throttle.py read-file-throttle.py: #!/usr/bin/python import time count=0 pre_time=time.time() with open("apache.log") as infile: for line in infile: line = line.strip() print line count += 1 if count % 50000 == 0: now_time = time.time() diff = now_time - pre_time if diff < 10: #print "sleeping %s seconds ..." % (diff) time.sleep(diff) pre_time = now_time Thank you very much. Best Regards, Yongkun Wang -- Apache MRUnit - Unit testing MapReduce - http://mrunit.apache.org<http://mrunit.apache.org/>
