[HADOOP-6843] Entries in the FileSystem's Cache could be cleared when they are not used

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Affects Version/s: 0.20.0
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Devaraj Das
• Created: 26/Jun/10 01:55
• Updated: 28/Apr/11 22:41
• Resolved: 28/Apr/11 22:41

Description

In FileSystem, there is a cache maintained for Filesystem instances. The entries in the cache are cleared only when explicit FileSystem.close is invoked. Applications are not careful on this aspect. Typically, they do FileSystem.get(), operate on the FileSystem, and then they just forget about it. Every FileSystem instance stores a reference to the Configuration object that it was created with. Over a period of time, as the cache grows, this can lead to OOM (we have seen this happening in our hadoop 20S clusters at Yahoo).

This jira aims at addressing the above issue.