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(); }