On Sep 23, 2010, at 11:57 AM, Andrew Purtell wrote: >> From: Todd Lipcon <[email protected]> > [...] >>> 4000 xcievers is a lot. >> >> 2:1 ratio of file descriptors to xceivers. 4000 xceivers is >> quite normal on a heavily loaded HBase cluster in my experience. > > We run with 10K xceivers... > > The problem is the pain is not quite high enough to devote months to making > what amounts to a new DataNode; though it is high. We'll reach a tipping > point when someone sets up a 1000+ node HBase cluster I expect.
I hope if/when the datanode is rewritten, they spell check the parameters.
