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Jonathan Gray commented on HBASE-3681:
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For unit tests which expect the old behavior, they should set the sloppiness
configuration to 0 (and we might make that the default value as well, since
this change in behavior could be seen as less optimal in some cases).
Also, why do you do an additional -1 for the min? If it was left as floor,
then setting sloppiness to 0 would yield exactly the same behavior as we have
today.
> Check the sloppiness of the region load before balancing
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> Key: HBASE-3681
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-3681
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 0.90.1
> Reporter: Jean-Daniel Cryans
> Assignee: Ted Yu
> Fix For: 0.92.0
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> Attachments: hbase-3681.txt
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> Per our discussion at the hackathon today, it seems that it would be more
> helpful to add a sloppiness check before doing the normal balancing.
> The current situation is that the balancer always tries to get the region
> load even, meaning that there can be some very frequent regions movement.
> Setting the balancer to run less often (like every 4 hours) isn't much better
> since the load could get out of whack easily.
> This is why running the normal balancer frequently, but first checking for
> some sloppiness in the region load across the RS, seems like a more viable
> option.
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