[ACCUMULO-887] sanity check configuration settings

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Eric C. Newton
• Created: 29/Nov/12 19:10
• Updated: 07/Jun/21 21:44
• Resolved: 07/Jun/21 21:44

Description

I accidentally set the WAL max size to "4" instead of "4G".

This produced the following stack trace, and was pretty hard to track down. We should pay more attention to sane settings for these values.

2012-11-29 12:12:55,610 [log.TabletServerLogger] ERROR: Unexpected error writing to log, retrying attempt 5
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.apache.accumulo.server.tabletserver.log.RemoteLogger.logManyTablets(RemoteLogger.java:145)
        at org.apache.accumulo.server.tabletserver.log.TabletServerLogger$6.write(TabletServerLogger.java:393)
        at org.apache.accumulo.server.tabletserver.log.TabletServerLogger.write(TabletServerLogger.java:298)
        at org.apache.accumulo.server.tabletserver.log.TabletServerLogger.logManyTablets(TabletServerLogger.java:382)
        at org.apache.accumulo.server.tabletserver.TabletServer$ThriftClientHandler.flush(TabletServer.java:1539)
        at org.apache.accumulo.server.tabletserver.TabletServer$ThriftClientHandler.closeUpdate(TabletServer.java:1610)