Moving Hbase heap dump locations

Occasionally HBase can generate heap dumps on OOM and put it in the bin folder (which is default). This can cause quite a lot of issues, if the system partitioning is not prepared for huge gigabyte files in the bin folder for hbase. To move the dump cores to another folder ,

Do this in the file  hbase-ver-conf/hbase-env.sh, add  -XX:HeapDumpPath=/path/to/dump to the line

>> export HBASE_OPTS="$HBASE_OPTS -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError $HBASE_GC"

Restart HBase.

Now you can sleep well without fears of heap dumps filling up the hbase binary partitions :)