[HBASE-440] Add optional log roll interval so that log files are garbage collected

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.2.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.2.0
• Component/s: regionserver
• Assignee: Jim Kellerman
• Reporter: Jim Kellerman
• Created: 12/Feb/08 05:43
• Updated: 22/Aug/08 21:13
• Resolved: 12/Feb/08 22:21

Description

While optional cache flushes will increase the sequence id in the region server's log file, if the region server is basically idle, the log will not get rolled and consequently old log files will not get garbage collected.