Hi, Many thanks to all for your answers. Your help is much appreciated.
Andy, you were right, fs.trash.interval didn't help.However, on a second run I was lucky enough that the overload got distributed over 2 of my 4 datanodes and it didn't result into an error during the import. I was looking at this patch and I see it is suitable for Hadoop 0.21.0. I am worried that if I install 0.21.0 it won't be compatible with the HBase version, 0.19.2 ( I am trying to stick to the stable versions until I learn my way around). Did some digging regarding the Hadoop / HBase versioning. Is it still the case that they are kept in line as specified in http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hbase/FAQ#19. Best regards, Alexandra. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Hbase-0.19.2---Large-import-results-in-heavily-unbalanced-hadoop-DFS-tp23526652p23539385.html Sent from the HBase User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
