private static void deleteCache(Configuration conf, MRAsyncDiskService asyncDiskService)
     throws IOException {
   List<CacheStatus> deleteSet = new LinkedList<CacheStatus>();
   // try deleting cache Status with refcount of zero
   synchronized (cachedArchives) {
     for (Iterator<String> it = cachedArchives.keySet().iterator(); it.hasNext(); ) {
       String cacheId = (String) it.next();
       CacheStatus lcacheStatus = cachedArchives.get(cacheId);
       if (lcacheStatus.refcount == 0) {
         // delete this cache entry from the global list
         // and mark the localized file for deletion
         deleteSet.add(lcacheStatus);
         it.remove();
       }
     }
   }
   // do the deletion asynchronously, after releasing the global lock
   Thread cacheFileCleaner =
       new Thread(new CacheFileCleanTask(asyncDiskService, FileSystem.getLocal(conf), deleteSet));
   cacheFileCleaner.start();
 }