This is something which needs to be definitely solved/fixed/resolved I am running YCSB benchmark on aws ec2 on a small HBase cluster
5 (m1.xlarge) as RS 1 (m1.xlarge) hbase-master, zookeper Whirr 0.8.2 (with many hacks) is used to provision HBase. I am running 1 ycsb client (100% insert ops) throttled at 5K ops: ./bin/ycsb load hbase -P workloads/load20m -p columnfamily=family -s -threads 10 -target 5000 OUTPUT: 1120 sec: 5602339 operations; 4999.7 current ops/sec; [INSERT AverageLatency(us)=225.53] 1130 sec: 5652117 operations; 4969.35 current ops/sec; [INSERT AverageLatency(us)=203.31] 1140 sec: 5665210 operations; 1309.04 current ops/sec; [INSERT AverageLatency(us)=17.13] 1150 sec: 5665210 operations; 0 current ops/sec; 1160 sec: 5665210 operations; 0 current ops/sec; 1170 sec: 5665210 operations; 0 current ops/sec; 1180 sec: 5665210 operations; 0 current ops/sec; 1190 sec: 5665210 operations; 0 current ops/sec; 2014-01-15 15:19:34,139 Thread-2 WARN [HConnectionManager$HConnectionImplementation] Failed all from region=usertable,user6039,1389811852201.40518862106856d23b883e5d543d0b89., hostname=ip-10-45-174-120.ec2.internal, port=60020 java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Call to ip-10-45-174-120.ec2.internal/10.45.174.120:60020 failed on socket timeout exception: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: 60000 millis timeout while waiting for channel to be ready for read. ch : java.nio.channels.SocketChannel[connected local=/10.180.211.173:42466 remote=ip-10-45-174-120.ec2.internal/10.45.174.120:60020] at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerGet(FutureTask.java:252) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.get(FutureTask.java:111) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HConnectionManager$HConnectionImplementation.processBatchCallback(HConnectionManager.java:1708) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HConnectionManager$HConnectionImplementation.processBatch(HConnectionManager.java:1560) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HTable.flushCommits(HTable.java:994) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HTable.doPut(HTable.java:850) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HTable.put(HTable.java:826) at com.yahoo.ycsb.db.HBaseClient.update(HBaseClient.java:328) at com.yahoo.ycsb.db.HBaseClient.insert(HBaseClient.java:357) at com.yahoo.ycsb.DBWrapper.insert(DBWrapper.java:148) at com.yahoo.ycsb.workloads.CoreWorkload.doInsert(CoreWorkload.java:461) at com.yahoo.ycsb.ClientThread.run(Client.java:269) Caused by: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Call to ip-10-45-174-120.ec2.internal/10.45.174.120:60020 failed on socket timeout exception: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: 60000 millis timeout while waiting for channel to be ready for read. ch : java.nio.channels.SocketChannel[connected local=/10.180.211.173:42466 remote=ip-10-45-174-120.ec2.internal/10.45.174.120:60020] at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc.HBaseClient.wrapException(HBaseClient.java:1043) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc.HBaseClient.call(HBaseClient.java:1016) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc.WritableRpcEngine$Invoker.invoke(WritableRpcEngine.java:87) at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy5.multi(Unknown Source) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HConnectionManager$HConnectionImplementation$3$1.call(HConnectionManager.java:1537) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HConnectionManager$HConnectionImplementation$3$1.call(HConnectionManager.java:1535) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.ServerCallable.withoutRetries(ServerCallable.java:229) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HConnectionManager$HConnectionImplementation$3.call(HConnectionManager.java:1544) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HConnectionManager$HConnectionImplementation$3.call(HConnectionManager.java:1532) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1146) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:701) SKIPPED A LOT 1200 sec: 5674180 operations; 896.82 current ops/sec; [INSERT AverageLatency(us)=7506.37] 1210 sec: 6022326 operations; 34811.12 current ops/sec; [INSERT AverageLatency(us)=1998.26] 1220 sec: 6102627 operations; 8018.07 current ops/sec; [INSERT AverageLatency(us)=395.11] 1230 sec: 6152632 operations; 5000 current ops/sec; [INSERT AverageLatency(us)=182.53] 1240 sec: 6202641 operations; 4999.9 current ops/sec; [INSERT AverageLatency(us)=201.76] 1250 sec: 6252642 operations; 4999.6 current ops/sec; [INSERT AverageLatency(us)=190.46] 1260 sec: 6302653 operations; 5000.1 current ops/sec; [INSERT AverageLatency(us)=212.31] 1270 sec: 6352660 operations; 5000.2 current ops/sec; [INSERT AverageLatency(us)=217.77] 1280 sec: 6402731 operations; 5000.1 current ops/sec; [INSERT AverageLatency(us)=195.83] 1290 sec: 6452740 operations; 4999.9 current ops/sec; [INSERT AverageLatency(us)=232.43] 1300 sec: 6502743 operations; 4999.8 current ops/sec; [INSERT AverageLatency(us)=290.52] 1310 sec: 6552755 operations; 5000.2 current ops/sec; [INSERT AverageLatency(us)=259.49] As you can see here there is ~ 60 sec total write stall on a cluster which I suppose 100% correlates with compactions started (minor) MAX_FILESIZE = 5GB ## Regions of 'usertable' - 50 I would appreciate any advices on how to get rid of these stalls. 5K per sec is quite moderate load even for 5 lousy AWS servers. 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