We already do have a cron job in place to clean just the shuffle files.
However, what I would really like to know is whether there is a "proper"
way of telling spark to clean up these files once its done with them?
Thanks
NB
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 10:47 AM, Jeetendra Gangele <gangele...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Write a crone job for this like below
>
> 12 * * * * find $SPARK_HOME/work -cmin +1440 -prune -exec rm -rf {} \+
> 32 * * * * find /tmp -type d -cmin +1440 -name "spark-*-*-*" -prune -exec
> rm -rf {} \+
> 52 * * * * find $SPARK_LOCAL_DIR -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -cmin
> +1440 -name "spark-*-*-*" -prune -exec rm -rf {} \+
>
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> On 20 April 2015 at 23:12, N B <nb.nos...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I had posed this query as part of a different thread but did not get a
>> response there. So creating a new thread hoping to catch someone's
>> attention.
>>
>> We are experiencing this issue of shuffle files being left behind and not
>> being cleaned up by Spark. Since this is a Spark streaming application, it
>> is expected to stay up indefinitely, so shuffle files not being cleaned up
>> is a big problem right now. Our max window size is 6 hours, so we have set
>> up a cron job to clean up shuffle files older than 12 hours otherwise it
>> will eat up all our disk space.
>>
>> Please see the following. It seems the non-cleaning of shuffle files is
>> being documented in 1.3.1.
>>
>> https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/5074/files
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-5836
>>
>>
>> Also, for some reason, the following JIRAs that were reported as
>> functional issues were closed as Duplicates of the above Documentation bug.
>> Does this mean that this issue won't be tackled at all?
>>
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-3563
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-4796
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-6011
>>
>> Any further insight into whether this is being looked into and meanwhile
>> how to handle shuffle files will be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks
>> NB
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