That actually make a lot of sense. Thanks, awesome people! Me and the dev team are here to get Katta + HBase to play together, and it's looking pretty nice.
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 9:47 PM, stack<[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Bradford Stephens < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> What I'm noticing is that it's writing to mostly one or two regions on >> one box at a time, even though I have 7 reducers running. Monitoring >> everything with dstat -v, I notice that only 2 of my servers are doing >> much. These boxes have very low CPU idling, and high disk output (a >> few GB a minute). >> > > > How many regions in your table? > > At first, there is one. All reducers will go against it. When it splits, > then two regions field the 7 reducers and so on. > > You can manually split regions from the command-line. See if that helps: > > hbase> split_region 'REGIONNAME' > > (IIRC -- type 'tools' in shell for help on the admin facilities). > > St.Ack >
