[FLUME-1857] Specify in the User Guide that hdfs.idleTimeout is in Seconds

• Type: Documentation
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Docs
• Assignee: Alexander Alten-Lorenz
• Reporter: Connor Woodson
• Created: 17/Jan/13 08:46
• Updated: 27/Mar/13 05:52

Description

The alternative is to change hdfs.idleTimeout to be in milliseconds, which is more consistent with the other timeouts, but I figure there was some reason for it to be how it is.

https://github.com/apache/flume/blob/trunk/flume-ng-sinks/flume-hdfs-sink/src/main/java/org/apache/flume/sink/hdfs/BucketWriter.java#L358