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Jean-Daniel Cryans commented on HBASE-3693:
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Wow good on your for finding this! +1
> isMajorCompaction() check triggers lots of listStatus DFS RPC calls from HBase
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> Key: HBASE-3693
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-3693
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Kannan Muthukkaruppan
> Assignee: Liyin Tang
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> We noticed that are lots of listStatus calls on the ColumnFamily directories
> within each regions, coming from this codepath:
> {code}
> compactionSelection()
> --> isMajorCompaction
> --> getLowestTimestamp()
> --> FileStatus[] stats = fs.listStatus(p);
> {code}
> So on every compactionSelection() we're taking this hit. While not
> immediately an issue, just from log inspection, this accounts for quite a
> large number of RPCs to namenode at the moment and seems like an unnecessary
> load to be sending to the namenode.
> Seems like it would be easy to cache the timestamp for each opened/created
> StoreFile, in memory, in the region server, and avoid going to DFS each time
> for this information.
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