Nope, that's to get around a bug where HMaster can deadock with itself. Check the svn logs for that section of the code
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Ted Yu <[email protected]> wrote: > I see: > > > this.executorService.startExecutorService(ExecutorType.MASTER_SERVER_OPERATIONS, > conf.getInt("hbase.master.executor.serverops.threads", 3)); > > > this.executorService.startExecutorService(ExecutorType.MASTER_META_SERVER_OPERATIONS, > conf.getInt("hbase.master.executor.serverops.threads", 5)); > The second might be a typo since default values are different. > > FYI > -- Todd Lipcon Software Engineer, Cloudera
