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Nicolas Spiegelberg commented on HBASE-6028: -------------------------------------------- this should be trivial to implement. just remember that canceling a compaction also requires manually freeing the files under compaction. > Implement a cancel for in-progress compactions > ---------------------------------------------- > > Key: HBASE-6028 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-6028 > Project: HBase > Issue Type: Bug > Components: regionserver > Reporter: Derek Wollenstein > Priority: Minor > Labels: compaction, operations, regionserver > > Depending on current server load, it can be extremely expensive to run > periodic minor / major compactions. It would be helpful to have a feature > where a user could use the shell or a client tool to explicitly cancel an > in-progress compactions. This would allow a system to recover when too many > regions became eligible for compactions at once -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira