[HADOOP-10059] RPC authentication and authorization metrics overflow to negative values on busy clusters

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.23.9, 2.2.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.6.0
• Component/s: metrics
• Target Version/s: 2.6.0
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Tsuyoshi Ozawa
• Reporter: Jason Darrell Lowe
• Created: 18/Oct/13 13:58
• Updated: 01/Dec/14 03:08
• Resolved: 18/Aug/14 16:36

Description

The RPC metrics for authorization and authentication successes can easily overflow to negative values on a busy cluster that has been up for a long time. We should consider providing 64-bit values for these counters.