Stack, Thanks for responding. I'm going to experiment with using a simple Java object as the cell value as opposed to little tiny string cell values and see if that helps. I can't afford to keep increasing the memory since I'll eventually run out of space for my other map/reduce jobs.
Will keep you all posted. Thanks, Ryan On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 4:18 PM, stack <[email protected]> wrote: > stack wrote: >> >> Small cell sizes use up loads of memory. See HBASE-900 for more on this. >> >> Other things to try: >> >> + hbase.io.index.interval is 32 by default. Set it to 1024 or larger in >> your case. Access may be a little slower -- but maybe not so bad since your >> cells are so small -- but the memory-resident indices will be smaller. > > Oh, pardon me, this is broke in 0.18.x hbase. See HBASE-981. Changing the > value has no effect. > St.Ack >
