EXTRA_JVM_ARGUMENTS in pinot-admin.sh prevents configuration of log4j file and -Xms -Xmx

[jpbetz]

Currently the only way to increase log verbosity from ERROR to INFO on pinot is to modify the pinot-log4j.properties file inside the pinot distribution.

The main problem is that pinot-admin.sh appends the EXTRA_JVM_ARGUMENTS JVM properties after the user provided JAVA_OPTS.

This causes a few problems.

• There is no simple way to specify an alternate log4j file. Usually this is would simply be done by adding -Dlog4j.configuration=... to JAVA_OPTS, but EXTRA_JVM_ARGUMENTS overrides the settings.
• Any -Xms or -Xmx settings provided in JAVA_OPTS are ignored.

Given that pinot has complex classpath, developer really must start it using pinot-admin.sh. And in order to properly operate and debug pinot, developers will often need to increase log verbosity and properly tune JVM settings.

[mayankshriv]

The issue has been resolved. You can set the env variable JAVA_OPTS to overwrite the defaults being used by pinot-admin. Please let us know if you have issues with the same.