For 1, stopProxy flag is for RPC proxies. On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Lars George <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > It seems that the HCM docs are now outdated, as we now keep a reference > count of each connection, and as long as you call HTable.close() you are OK > with shared resources not lingering on. What I was wondering is: > > 1. Why do we offer a "stopProxy" flag? > > Is that closing out all proxies for all connection, even if they are still > active? Or is that for only the RPC proxies used by that connection? > > And why do we have a flag at all? Wouldn't you always want this to be > cleaned up? Especially for deleteAllConnection()? > > 2. What is getConnection() for? > > Who is using this outside of HBase and Ruby scripts? > > Lars >
