Sounds like #1 is not HBase issue, but HBql issue. http://www.hbql.com/xref/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/hbql/impl/MappingManager.html
May be this method should be synchronized: *public* *void* validatePersistentMetadata() *throws* HBqlException { On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Something Something < mailinglist...@gmail.com> wrote: > I run into the following two issues related to HBase all the time, and > therefore am wondering if there are any permanent fixes for these: > > 1) When I start Hadoop & HBase for the first time, and run a single job it > runs successfully; but when I fire 2 (or more) jobs only one of them runs > successfully and the other one fails with exception saying... "table > system_mappings" doesn't exist. Seems like some type of race condition. > How do I bring up HBase with 'system_mappings' table already built? Or, how > do I avoid running into this issue? > > 2) After 30 minutes or so on in-activity, HBase (or may be Zookeeper) stops > working. I have to restart it. How do I ensure that it always stays up? > > Thanks for the help. > >