I think this is an interesting idea and your email is timely Ted. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-2506?focusedCommentId=12964485&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#action_12964485
- Andy --- On Sat, 11/27/10, Ted Yu <yuzhih...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Ted Yu <yuzhih...@gmail.com> > Subject: proactive memory management utilizing MemoryPoolMXBean > To: dev@hbase.apache.org > Date: Saturday, November 27, 2010, 7:39 AM > Hi, > > I am wondering if HBase can utilize the following to > balance load across region servers for reduced GC pause: > http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/management/MemoryPoolMXBean.html > > especially Usage Threshold Notifications. > > Cheers >