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Brian Bockelman commented on HADOOP-4584:
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I can add that we are starting to run into this problem as we convert over our
pre-existing servers to HDFS!
The largest has the capacity to store 650k, 64-MB blocks. At some point, it's
going to "kill itself" just waiting for the block report -- even under light
load!
> Slow generation of blockReport at DataNode causes delay of sending heartbeat
> to NameNode
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> Key: HADOOP-4584
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4584
> Project: Hadoop Core
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: dfs
> Reporter: Hairong Kuang
> Fix For: 0.20.0
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> sometimes due to disk or some other problems, datanode takes minutes or tens
> of minutes to generate a block report. It causes the datanode not able to
> send heartbeat to NameNode every 3 seconds. In the worst case, it makes
> NameNode to detect a lost heartbeat and wrongly decide that the datanode is
> dead.
> It would be nice to have two threads instead. One thread is for scanning data
> directories and generating block report, and executes the requests sent by
> NameNode; Another thread is for sending heartbeats, block reports, and
> picking up the requests from NameNode. By having these two threads, the
> sending of heartbeats will not get delayed by any slow block report or slow
> execution of NameNode requests.
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