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Eric Payne updated HDFS-2171:
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Attachment: HDFS-2171.patch
> Changes to balancer bandwidth should not require datanode restart.
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> Key: HDFS-2171
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-2171
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: balancer, data-node
> Affects Versions: 0.20.205.0
> Reporter: Eric Payne
> Assignee: Eric Payne
> Fix For: 0.20.205.0
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> Attachments: HDFS-2171.patch
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> Currently in order to change the value of the balancer bandwidth
> (dfs.datanode.balance.bandwidthPerSec), the datanode daemon must be restarted.
> The optimal value of the bandwidthPerSec parameter is not always (almost
> never) known at the time of cluster startup, but only once a new node is
> placed in the cluster and balancing is begun. If the balancing is taking too
> long (bandwidthPerSec is too low) or the balancing is taking up too much
> bandwidth (bandwidthPerSec is too high), the cluster must go into a
> "maintenance window" where it is unusable while all of the datanodes are
> bounced. In large clusters of thousands of nodes, this can be a real
> maintenance problem because these "mainenance windows" can take a long time
> and there may have to be several of them while the bandwidthPerSec is
> experimented with and tuned.
> A possible solution to this problem would be to add a -bandwidth parameter to
> the balancer tool. If bandwidth is supplied, pass the value to the datanodes
> via the OP_REPLACE_BLOCK and OP_COPY_BLOCK DataTransferProtocol requests.
> This would make it necessary, however, to change the DataTransferProtocol
> version.
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