https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Multiple-edits-inprogress-files-on-one-of-the-journal-nodes/m-p/240710#M202514 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/1271/sheltong.html" nodeid="1271">@Geoffrey Shelton Okot:</A></P><P>Currently node03 is active NN. </P><P>Last promised epoch on all 3 nodes : 591 &amp;</P><P>Number of file in /hadoop/hdfs/journal/XXXXcluster/current are as follows:</P><P>node02 : 10281</P><P>node03 : 10284<BR />node04 : 10284</P><P><BR /></P><P><BR /></P><P>Yes, still experiencing the same problem.</P><UL><LI>Two edits_inprogress files on node02 ..../journal/../current directory.</LI><LI>Standby NN goes into stopped state frequently.</LI><LI>Checkpointing does not occur every 14400 seconds as configured in checkpoint.period <BR /><BR /></LI></UL><P>(Last night, standby NN i.e. node02 was in stopped state, had to manually start it from Ambari. Checked the</P><P>Last checkpoint : Tue May 21 2019 17:14:59, as on<BR /><BR />ntp time : Wed May 22 2019 1:03:36 )<BR /><BR /><BR />As for today,<BR /><BR />Last checkpoint time : Wed May 22 2019 10:18:33 , whereas<BR /><BR />ntp time : Wed May 22 2019 19:10:52 )</P><P><BR /></P> Thu, 23 May 2019 03:12:28 GMT kfarhana176 2019-05-23T03:12:28Z