We could have a speedy default and an extra parameter for puts that would specify a flush is needed. This way you pass the responsibility to the user and he can decide if he needs to be paranoid or not. This could be part of Put and even specify granularity of the flush if needed.
Cosmin On 11/15/09 6:59 PM, "Andrew Purtell" <apurt...@apache.org> wrote: > I agree with this. > > I also think we should leave the default as is with the caveat that we call > out the durability versus write performance tradeoff in the flushlogentries > description and up on the wiki somewhere, maybe on > http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/PerformanceTuning . We could also provide two > example configurations, one for performance (reasonable tradeoffs), one for > paranoia. I put up an issue: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-1984 > > - Andy > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Ryan Rawson <ryano...@gmail.com> > To: hbase-dev@hadoop.apache.org > Sent: Sat, November 14, 2009 11:22:13 PM > Subject: Re: Should we change the default value of > hbase.regionserver.flushlogentries for 0.21? > > That sync at the end of a RPC is my doing. You dont want to sync every > _EDIT_, after all, the previous definition of the word "edit" was each > KeyValue. So we could be calling sync for every single column in a > row. Bad stuff. > > In the end, if the regionserver crashes during a batch put, we will > never know how much of the batch was flushed to the WAL. Thus it makes > sense to only do it once and get a massive, massive, speedup. > > On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 9:45 PM, stack <st...@duboce.net> wrote: >> I'm for leaving it as it is, at every 100 edits -- maybe every 10 edits? >> Speed stays as it was. We used to lose MBs. By default, we'll now lose 99 >> or 9 edits max. >> >> We need to do some work bringing folks along regardless of what we decide. >> Flush happens at the end of the put up in the regionserver. If you are >> doing a batch of commits -- e.g. using a big write buffer over on your >> client -- the puts will only be flushed on the way out after the batch put >> completes EVEN if you have configured hbase to sync every edit (I ran into >> this this evening. J-D sorted me out). We need to make sure folks are up >> on this. >> >> St.Ack >> >> >> >> On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Jean-Daniel Cryans >> <jdcry...@apache.org>wrote: >> >>> Hi dev! >>> >>> Hadoop 0.21 now has a reliable append and flush feature and this gives >>> us the opportunity to review some assumptions. The current situation: >>> >>> - Every edit going to a catalog table is flushed so there's no data loss. >>> - The user tables edits are flushed every >>> hbase.regionserver.flushlogentries which by default is 100. >>> >>> Should we now set this value to 1 in order to have more durable but >>> slower inserts by default? Please speak up. >>> >>> Thx, >>> >>> J-D >>> >> > > > >
