(putting dev@ in bcc, please don't cross-post) You need to pre-split that table, see http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#precreate.regions
J-D On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 2:00 AM, Matthew Tovbin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, Guys, > > I'm willing to bulk load data from hdfs folders into HBase, for this > purpose > I used configureIncrementalLoad method from HFileOutputFormat that > configures the job, as follows: > > > org.apache.hadoop.hbase.mapreduce.HFileOutputFormat.configureIncrementalLoad(job, > myTable) > > The problem is that destination table in HBase is empty, meaning it's only > hosted by one region server, so the resulted number of reducers is 1, which > makes the job to run almost forever. > > How can I increase the number of reducers? Can the number of reducers be > set > to more than a number of region servers? > > Thanks in advance, > Matthew Tovbin. >
