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Anoop Sam John commented on HBASE-18624:
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After some more thinking I think its ok to add this as a high end Admin API.
Ya might be useful while perf testing with out restart of RS. Pls attach a
latest patch if needed. Will review then.
> Added support for clearing BlockCache
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> Key: HBASE-18624
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-18624
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Affects Versions: 2.0.0, 1.3.0
> Reporter: Ajay Jadhav
> Assignee: Ajay Jadhav
> Fix For: 1.4.0
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> Attachments: HBASE-18624.branch-1.001.patch
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> Bulk loading the primary HBase cluster triggers a lot of compactions
> resulting in archival/ creation
> of multiple HFiles. This process will cause a lot of items to become stale in
> replica’s BlockCache.
> This patch will help users to clear the block cache for a given table by
> either using shell or API.
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