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Best sequence of using Vacuum, optimize, fsck repair and refresh commands.

Nis
New Contributor II

I have a delta table whose size will increases gradually now we have around 1.5 crores of rows while running vacuum command on that table i am getting the below error.

ERROR: Job aborted due to stage failure: Task 7 in stage 491.0 failed 4 times, most recent failure: Lost task 7.4 in stage 481.0 (TID 4116) (10.154.64.26 executor 7): ExecutorLostFailure (executor 7 exited caused by one of the running tasks) Reason: Executor heartbeat timed out after 177186 ms

and also wanted to know the best order of using

VACUUM table RETAIN 168 HOURS

optimize table;

fsck repair table table;

REFRESH table table;

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jose_gonzalez
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee

Do you have access to the Executor 7 logs? is there a high GC or some other events that is making the heartbeat timeout? would you be able to check the failed stages?

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