Hello Jean-Adrien,
Please see HBASE-1062:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-1062
- Andy
> From: Jean-Adrien
> Subject: HBase behaviour at startup (compression)
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Wednesday, December 17, 2008, 3:08 AM
> Hello,
>
> I have a question regarding the behavior of HBase at
> startup time.
>
> First the region servers load all regions of enabled
> tables, then a batch task of (minor?) compression is
> made on some of these regions:
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> In my case it takes several hours to complete
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