Unfortunately that's a what not a why. The handler threads retain memory in the service of requests... just exactly what were you doing to the regionserver?
You might need more heap. I'd give 7000m a go. On Aug 12, 2010 11:10 AM, "Ted Yu" <[email protected]> wrote: > From the snapshot, we can see that HBaseServer$Handler's had the highest > retained size. > Can we make HBaseServer$Handler aware of the memory pressure of the > RegionServer so that OOME can be avoided ? > > Cheers > > On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Ted Yu <[email protected]> wrote: > >> See if this is more helpful: >>
