it's random. every 24 hours the regionserver will compact every region (the check is if it has been > 24 hours since the last major compaction do one), which will create locality.
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:18 AM, ChingShen <chingshenc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, all > > Does anyone know what criteria are used to assign region to regionserver? > block locations of a region in HDFS? > > Thanks. > > Shen >