[jira] [Commented] (ACCUMULO-887) sanity check configuration settings

["Adam Fuchs (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Adam Fuchs commented on ACCUMULO-887:
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Off topic, but why would this give a NPE? Is that some other rare bug that
you've stumbled upon?




                
> sanity check configuration settings
> -----------------------------------
>
>                 Key: ACCUMULO-887
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-887
>             Project: Accumulo
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Eric Newton
>             Fix For: 1.5.0
>
>
> I accidentally set the WAL max size to "4" instead of "4G".
> This produced the following stack trace, and was pretty hard to track down.  We should pay more attention to sane settings for these values.
> {noformat}
> 2012-11-29 12:12:55,610 [log.TabletServerLogger] ERROR: Unexpected error writing to log, retrying attempt 5
> java.lang.NullPointerException
>         at org.apache.accumulo.server.tabletserver.log.RemoteLogger.logManyTablets(RemoteLogger.java:145)
>         at org.apache.accumulo.server.tabletserver.log.TabletServerLogger$6.write(TabletServerLogger.java:393)
>         at org.apache.accumulo.server.tabletserver.log.TabletServerLogger.write(TabletServerLogger.java:298)
>         at org.apache.accumulo.server.tabletserver.log.TabletServerLogger.logManyTablets(TabletServerLogger.java:382)
>         at org.apache.accumulo.server.tabletserver.TabletServer$ThriftClientHandler.flush(TabletServer.java:1539)
>         at org.apache.accumulo.server.tabletserver.TabletServer$ThriftClientHandler.closeUpdate(TabletServer.java:1610)
> {noformat}

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