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Jean-Daniel Cryans commented on HBASE-2023: ------------------------------------------- Ok so in the same order: - This is the current situation, synchronization at line 613 of HCM. - Narrowing down the sync block we could put it at line 637 and cover the rest of the locateRegionInMeta method. - Removing the sync means getting rid of synchronized at line 613. > Client sync block can cause 1 thread of a multi-threaded client to block all > others > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HBASE-2023 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-2023 > Project: Hadoop HBase > Issue Type: Bug > Affects Versions: 0.20.2 > Reporter: ryan rawson > > Take a highly multithreaded client, processing a few thousand requests a > second. If a table goes offline, one thread will get stuck in > "locateRegionInMeta" which is located inside the following sync block: > synchronized(userRegionLock){ > return locateRegionInMeta(META_TABLE_NAME, tableName, row, > useCache); > } > So when other threads need to find a region (EVEN IF ITS CACHED!!!) it will > encounter this sync and wait. > This can become an issue on a busy thrift server (where I first noticed the > problem), one region offline can prevent access to all other regions! > Potential solution: narrow this lock, or perhaps just get rid of it > completely. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.