i started again and created another template using a generateflowfile and a remote processor group and still the same. below is a copy of the new yml file on MiNiFi Flow Controller: name: flowfile comment: '' Core Properties: flow controller graceful shutdown period: 10 sec flow service write delay interval: 500 ms administrative yield duration: 30 sec bored yield duration: 10 millis max concurrent threads: 1 FlowFile Repository: partitions: 256 checkpoint interval: 2 mins always sync: false Swap: threshold: 20000 in period: 5 sec in threads: 1 out period: 5 sec out threads: 4 Content Repository: content claim max appendable size: 10 MB content claim max flow files: 100 always sync: false Provenance Repository: provenance rollover time: 1 min Component Status Repository: buffer size: 1440 snapshot frequency: 1 min Security Properties: keystore: '' keystore type: '' keystore password: '' key password: '' truststore: '' truststore type: '' truststore password: '' ssl protocol: '' Sensitive Props: key: algorithm: PBEWITHMD5AND256BITAES-CBC-OPENSSL provider: BC Processors: - name: GenerateFlowFile class: org.apache.nifi.processors.standard.GenerateFlowFile max concurrent tasks: 1 scheduling strategy: TIMER_DRIVEN scheduling period: 0 sec penalization period: 30 sec yield period: 1 sec run duration nanos: 0 auto-terminated relationships list: [] Properties: Batch Size: '1' Data Format: Binary File Size: 100 MB Unique FlowFiles: 'false' Connections: - name: GenerateFlowFile/success/da4b4c07-0158-1000-0000-00004ed4df3c source name: GenerateFlowFile source relationship name: success destination name: da4b4c07-0158-1000-0000-00004ed4df3c max work queue size: 10000 max work queue data size: 1 GB flowfile expiration: 0 sec queue prioritizer class: '' Remote Processing Groups: - name: http://192.168.1.99:9090/nifi url: http://192.168.1.99:9090/nifi comment: '' timeout: 30 sec yield period: 10 sec Input Ports: - id: da4b4c07-0158-1000-0000-00004ed4df3c name: minifi comment: '' max concurrent tasks: 1 use compression: false Here are the last few lines from the log file after i run bin/minifi.sh start 0 Swap Files in 39 milliseconds (Stop-the-world time = 7 milliseconds, Clear Edit Logs time = 9 millis), max Transaction ID -1 2016-12-07 18:13:54,677 INFO [pool-72-thread-1] o.a.n.c.r.WriteAheadFlowFileRepository Initiating checkpoint of FlowFile Repository 2016-12-07 18:13:54,971 INFO [pool-72-thread-1] org.wali.MinimalLockingWriteAheadLog org.wali.MinimalLockingWriteAheadLog@11d0bbc checkpointed with 0 Records and 0 Swap Files in 293 milliseconds (Stop-the-world time = 108 milliseconds, Clear Edit Logs time = 72 millis), max Transaction ID -1 2016-12-07 18:13:54,972 INFO [pool-72-thread-1] o.a.n.c.r.WriteAheadFlowFileRepository Successfully checkpointed FlowFile Repository with 0 records in 294 milliseconds 2016-12-07 18:15:25,997 INFO [Write-Ahead Local State Provider Maintenance] org.wali.MinimalLockingWriteAheadLog org.wali.MinimalLockingWriteAheadLog@1ec2968 checkpointed with 0 Records and 0 Swap Files in 39 milliseconds (Stop-the-world time = 7 milliseconds, Clear Edit Logs time = 9 millis), max Transaction ID -1 2016-12-07 18:15:54,973 INFO [pool-72-thread-1] o.a.n.c.r.WriteAheadFlowFileRepository Initiating checkpoint of FlowFile Repository 2016-12-07 18:15:55,326 INFO [pool-72-thread-1] org.wali.MinimalLockingWriteAheadLog org.wali.MinimalLockingWriteAheadLog@11d0bbc checkpointed with 0 Records and 0 Swap Files in 352 milliseconds (Stop-the-world time = 167 milliseconds, Clear Edit Logs time = 73 millis), max Transaction ID -1 2016-12-07 18:15:55,327 INFO [pool-72-thread-1] o.a.n.c.r.WriteAheadFlowFileRepository Successfully checkpointed FlowFile Repository with 0 records in 353 milliseconds ... View more