[PIG-1838] On a large farm, some pigs die of /tmp starvation

• Type: Wish
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 0.8.0
• Component/s: impl
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Allen Wittenauer
• Created: 02/Feb/11 00:58
• Updated: 07/Feb/12 00:24
• Resolved: 06/Feb/12 23:34

Description

We're starting to see issues where interactive/command line pig users blow up due to so many large jar creations in /tmp. (In other words, pig execution prior to the java.io.tmpdir fix that Hadoop makes can kick in.) Pig should probably not depend upon users being savvy enough to override java.io.tmpdir on their own in these situations and/or a better steward of the space it does use.