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Ted Yu commented on HBASE-17215:
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I was thinking why would a thread be dedicated to cleaning up small files ?
Considering that cleaning up the largest files first would be more economical.
Can the two threads be taking turns to clean up the largest files ?
> Separate small/large file delete threads in HFileCleaner to accelerate
> archived hfile cleanup speed
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> Key: HBASE-17215
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-17215
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Yu Li
> Assignee: Yu Li
> Attachments: HBASE-17215.patch
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> When using PCIe-SSD the flush speed will be really quick, and although we
> have per CF flush, we still have the
> {{hbase.regionserver.optionalcacheflushinterval}} setting and some other
> mechanism to avoid data kept in memory for too long to flush small hfiles. In
> our online environment we found the single thread cleaner kept cleaning
> earlier flushed small files while large files got no chance, which caused
> disk full then many other problems.
> Deleting hfiles in parallel with too many threads will also increase the
> workload of namenode, so here we propose to separate large/small hfile
> cleaner threads just like we do for compaction, and it turned out to work
> well in our cluster.
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