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Status Submitted
Workspace Cloud Pak for Data
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 3, 2024

Automate the clean up of files in Cloud pak for data

In a customer case after only 9 month the file-api-claim had over 800k files and it was suspected that we had a performance issue.

We disabled selinux relabling 

But we also ran the cron job cleanup script.

But this was not enough. We had to run more cleanup manually to remove spark jobs.

We went from 800k files to 500k

It would be nice that we add this functionality into the product to auto-clean.

Also scripts reffered here does did not go very deep in the file cleaning with CP4D 4.8.4, it could be better enhanced after we discussed with Manjot from the spark dev team.

https://wwwpoc.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6980928

Maybe we could put in the gui for the admin a usability option where the customer sets how many days of logs he wants to keep.

IBM would automatically clean up for the customer by default in the product, maybe we could keep 2 days as stated in the script.

Needed By Not sure -- Just thought it was cool