This is the node with max used DFS : Configured Capacity: 39361572290560 (35.80 TB) DFS Used: 33153470297657 (30.15 TB) Non DFS Used: 2013917119095 (1.83 TB) DFS Remaining: 4194184873808 (3.81 TB) DFS Used%: 84.23% DFS Remaining%: 10.66% Configured Cache Capacity: 0 (0 B) Cache Used: 0 (0 B) Cache Remaining: 0 (0 B) Cache Used%: 100.00% Cache Remaining%: 0.00% Xceivers: 5 Last contact: Thu Aug 04 14:35:12 EDT 2016 Top command result on that particular node : 354087 yarn 20 0 9171m 926m 22m S 128.2 0.4 3047:42 java 772924 hdfs 20 0 9303m 633m 22m S 63.1 0.2 57:01.48 java 107720 yarn 20 0 9174m 890m 22m S 22.1 0.3 0:13.77 java 6169 root 0 -20 171m 134m 2112 S 19.2 0.1 12455:13 scopeux 61427 yarn 20 0 2010m 759m 17m S 3.3 0.3 812:40.22 java 164681 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 1.7 0.0 62:29.04 flush-8:16 107667 yarn 20 0 9165m 523m 22m S 1.3 0.2 0:10.82 java 108383 hdfs 20 0 15580 1812 952 R 1.0 0.0 0:00.19 top 68450 ams 20 0 484m 8828 3296 S 0.7 0.0 87:01.26 python2.6 565 root 39 19 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 190:50.45 kipmi0 3861 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 12:12.45 kondemand/27 325502 root 20 0 1738m 27m 4188 S 0.3 0.0 434:43.38 python