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stack reassigned HADOOP-2731:
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Assignee: stack
> [hbase] Under load, regions become extremely large and eventually cause
> region servers to become unresponsive
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> Key: HADOOP-2731
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-2731
> Project: Hadoop Core
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: contrib/hbase
> Reporter: Bryan Duxbury
> Assignee: stack
> Attachments: split-v10.patch, split-v8.patch, split-v9.patch,
> split.patch
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> When attempting to write to HBase as fast as possible, HBase accepts puts at
> a reasonably high rate for a while, and then the rate begins to drop off,
> ultimately culminating in exceptions reaching client code. In my testing, I
> was able to write about 370 10KB records a second to HBase until I reach
> around 1 million rows written. At that point, a moderate to large number of
> exceptions - NotServingRegionException, WrongRegionException, region offline,
> etc - begin reaching the client code. This appears to be because the
> retry-and-wait logic in HTable runs out of retries and fails.
> Looking at mapfiles for the regions from the command line shows that some of
> the mapfiles are between 1 and 2 GB in size, much more than the stated file
> size limit. Talking with Stack, one possible explanation for this is that the
> RegionServer is not choosing to compact files often enough, leading to many
> small mapfiles, which in turn leads to a few overlarge mapfiles. Then, when
> the time comes to do a split or "major" compaction, it takes an unexpectedly
> long time to complete these operations. This translates into errors for the
> client application.
> If I back off the import process and give the cluster some quiet time, some
> splits and compactions clearly do take place, because the number of regions
> go up and the number of mapfiles/region goes down. I can then begin writing
> again in earnest for a short period of time until the problem begins again.
> Both Marc Harris and myself have seen this behavior.
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