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Lars Hofhansl commented on PHOENIX-5291: ---------------------------------------- [~rushabh.shah], [~ram_krish] Can we undo the reference counting please! I know this was a big change, but we've had continuing outages over that. Reference counting by it's nature is fickle in a big system like HBase. In any case, I'll post a patch here to close the scanners correctly. > Some cases where Phoenix does close scanners > -------------------------------------------- > > Key: PHOENIX-5291 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PHOENIX-5291 > Project: Phoenix > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Lars Hofhansl > Priority: Major > > With HBase 1.5 and later this is a disaster, as it causes the wrong reference > counting of HFiles in HBase, and those subsequently will *never* be removed > until the region closes and reopens for any reason. > We found at least two cases... See comments below. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)