hi all we have ambari cluster ( HDP version - 2.5.4 ) in the spark thrift log we can see the error about - /tmp/hive/hive is exceeded: limit=1048576 items=1048576 we try to delete the old files under /tmp/hive/hive , but there are a million of files and we cant delete them because hdfs dfs -ls /tmp/hive/hive isn't return any output any suggestion ? how to delete the old files in spite there are a million of files? or any other solution/? * for now spark thrift server isn't started successfully because this error , also hiveserver2 not started also Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RemoteException(org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.FSLimitException$MaxDirectoryItemsExceededException): The directory item limit of /tmp/hive/hive is exceeded: limit=1048576 items=1048576       at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Han dler.run(Server.java:2347) second can we purge the files? by cron or other? hdfs dfs -ls /tmp/hive/hive Found 4 items drwx------   - hive hdfs          0 2019-06-16 21:58 /tmp/hive/hive/2f95f6a5-76ad-487e-968c-1873264a3a9c drwx------   - hive hdfs          0 2019-06-16 21:45 /tmp/hive/hive/368d201c-cedf-48dc-bbad-f13d6aed7016 drwx------   - hive hdfs          0 2019-06-16 21:58 /tmp/hive/hive/717fb013-535b-4279-a12e-4fc4261c4d68 ... View more