If getTaskList() returns null splitlogWorker is down. It wont serve any requests. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: HBASE-5635 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-5635 Project: HBase Issue Type: Bug Components: wal Affects Versions: 0.92.1 Reporter: Kristam Subba Swathi During the hlog split operation if all the zookeepers are down ,then the paths will be returned as null and the splitworker thread wil be exited Now this regionserver wil not be able to acquire any other tasks since the splitworker thread is exited Please find the attached code for more details ------------------------------------------ private List<String> getTaskList() { for (int i = 0; i < zkretries; i++) { try { return (ZKUtil.listChildrenAndWatchForNewChildren(this.watcher, this.watcher.splitLogZNode)); } catch (KeeperException e) { LOG.warn("Could not get children of znode " + this.watcher.splitLogZNode, e); try { Thread.sleep(1000); } catch (InterruptedException e1) { LOG.warn("Interrupted while trying to get task list ...", e1); Thread.currentThread().interrupt(); return null; } } } in the org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.SplitLogWorker -- 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