[IMPALA-4431] Add a way to control the number of audit event log files

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Impala 2.5.0
• Fix Version/s: Impala 2.9.0
• Component/s: Backend
• Labels: impala
• Environment: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5
• Assignee: Davy Xu
• Reporter: Davy Xu
• Created: 04/Nov/16 08:27
• Updated: 12/May/17 22:34
• Resolved: 29/Dec/16 01:35

Description

There is no limit to the number of audit event log files. When audit event log is enabled, the growing number of log files will spill the disk space.
So, the number of log files must be controlled by way of configuration as general log file number controlling.