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Josh Elser updated HBASE-15837:
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    Attachment: HBASE-15837.001.patch

.001 A first stab at avoiding the RS crash. The general goals are to

# Determine who screwed up the memstoreSize in the first place
# Avoid data loss when memstoreSize is wrong

If a store does fail to flush successfully, the RS should still crash. The 
logic is just fixing the logic so that memstoreSize being negative doesn't 
prevent a Store's flush and cause the RS abort.

> More gracefully handle a negative memstoreSize
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>
>                 Key: HBASE-15837
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-15837
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: regionserver
>            Reporter: Josh Elser
>            Assignee: Josh Elser
>             Fix For: 2.0.0
>
>         Attachments: HBASE-15837.001.patch
>
>
> Over in PHOENIX-2883, I've been trying to figure out how to track down the 
> root cause of an issue we were seeing where a negative memstoreSize was 
> ultimately causing an RS to abort. The tl;dr version is
> * Something causes memstoreSize to be negative (not sure what is doing this 
> yet)
> * All subsequent flushes short-circuit and don't run because they think there 
> is no data to flush
> * The region is eventually closed (commonly, for a move).
> * A final flush is attempted on each store before closing (which also 
> short-circuit for the same reason), leaving unflushed data in each store.
> * The sanity check that each store's size is zero fails and the RS aborts.
> I have a little patch which I think should improve our failure case around 
> this, preventing the RS abort safely (forcing a flush when memstoreSize is 
> negative) and logging a calltrace when an update to memstoreSize make it 
> negative (to find culprits in the future).



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