[FLUME-2913] Flume classpath too long

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.7.0
• Assignee: Balázs Donát Bessenyei
• Reporter: Balázs Donát Bessenyei
• Created: 26/May/16 16:09
• Updated: 18/Jun/16 17:17
• Resolved: 27/May/16 19:22

Description

Starting Flume generates the FLUME_CLASSPATH variable dynamically, adding jars one by one.
In some cases, the classpath can grow too long, sometimes exceeding ARG_MAX, maximum length of arguments for a new process ( http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/argmax/ )
Thus, being unable to start Flume:
flume-ng/bin/flume-ng: line 239: /usr/java/jdk1.7.0_67/bin/java: Argument list too long