how to clean the hadoop-hdfs logs under /var/log/hadoop-hdfs
First of all, Hadoop is designed for much larger capacity than the ones you mention, which means that 5.5GB logs aren't that much usually. This explains why the default settings is not appropriate in your case.
You can:
- reduce the number of log files that are retained with the variable
navigator.audit_log_max_backup_index(usually 10) - or the max log file size with
navigator.audit_log_max_file_size