https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/limit-the-size-of-files-that-an-application-can-create-in/m-p/360881#M238461 <P>You can set quota on /tmp - Once quota is reached further write on the directory will fail.&nbsp;<A href="https://docs.cloudera.com/cdp-private-cloud-base/7.1.6/scaling-namespaces/topics/hdfs-set-quotas-cm.html" target="_blank">https://docs.cloudera.com/cdp-private-cloud-base/7.1.6/scaling-namespaces/topics/hdfs-set-quotas-cm.html</A>&nbsp;has the steps to enable quota</P> Mon, 09 Jan 2023 20:20:25 GMT venkatsambath 2023-01-09T20:20:25Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/limit-the-size-of-files-that-an-application-can-create-in/m-p/360866#M238459 <P>Is there a setting or option that can be used to prevent an appltication&nbsp; from creating huge temp files?</P><P>We recently had an application that due to bad syntax, began to cycle and create files in TB temp almost lowering the cluster for space, there is a way to prevent /tmp from overflowing at that level</P> Mon, 09 Jan 2023 15:32:23 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/limit-the-size-of-files-that-an-application-can-create-in/m-p/360866#M238459 AlanKuri 2023-01-09T15:32:23Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/limit-the-size-of-files-that-an-application-can-create-in/m-p/360881#M238461 <P>You can set quota on /tmp - Once quota is reached further write on the directory will fail.&nbsp;<A href="https://docs.cloudera.com/cdp-private-cloud-base/7.1.6/scaling-namespaces/topics/hdfs-set-quotas-cm.html" target="_blank">https://docs.cloudera.com/cdp-private-cloud-base/7.1.6/scaling-namespaces/topics/hdfs-set-quotas-cm.html</A>&nbsp;has the steps to enable quota</P> Mon, 09 Jan 2023 20:20:25 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/limit-the-size-of-files-that-an-application-can-create-in/m-p/360881#M238461 venkatsambath 2023-01-09T20:20:25Z