Re: why responseTooSlow ?

2012-06-15 Thread Jiajun Chen
$ iostat 3 5 avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 27.930.006.554.440.00 61.08 Device:tps Blk_read/s Blk_wrtn/s Blk_read Blk_wrtn sda 39.58 1987.97 1360.10 2261558140 1547281856 sdb 40.86

Re: Data locality in HBase

2012-06-15 Thread Lars George
Hi Ben, See inline... On Jun 15, 2012, at 6:56 AM, Ben Kim wrote: Hi, I've been posting questions in the mailing-list quiet often lately, and here goes another one about data locality I read the excellent blog post about data locality that Lars George wrote at

Isolation level

2012-06-15 Thread Cristina
Hi, I have read that Hbase has read committed as isolation level, but I have some doubts. Is it possible to chage this level, for instance to read uncommitted? How could I do this? Another question, Is this isolation level based on locks? I have doubts because Hbase has multiversion concurrency

Re: memstoreSizeMB=0

2012-06-15 Thread Lars George
Hi Ash, What Dave said. MemStore's are part of the write path only. BlockCache is part of the read path only respectively. They only compete for heap on their own right, but have otherwise no direct relation. Lars On Jun 13, 2012, at 10:15 PM, Dave Revell wrote: Here's a good starting

Re: Timestamp as a key good practice?

2012-06-15 Thread Michael Segel
Thought about this a little bit more... You will want two tables for a solution. 1 Table is Key: Unique ID Column: FilePathValue: Full Path to file Column: Last Update timeValue: timestamp 2 Table is Key: Last Update time(The

Re: Isolation level

2012-06-15 Thread Jerry Lam
Hi Cristina: My understanding of HBase is that the isolation level fro read ops is Read Committed. There is only write lock which could protect the data from modifying by other requests but there is no read-lock (it is there but it doesn't have any effect). Since put ops are atomic, it can

Multiple HBase instances per machine

2012-06-15 Thread Em
Hello list, what are your experience with having more than one HBase-instance per machine? One reason to do this could be that you got i.e. 32 GB RAM and want to give 12-14 GB of RAM to each HBase instance so that you got little issues with Garbage Collection while using the available

Re: Multiple HBase instances per machine

2012-06-15 Thread Stack
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Em mailformailingli...@yahoo.de wrote: what are your experience with having more than one HBase-instance per machine? My experience is ittle. Its been done though by others on this list. One reason to do this could be that you got i.e. 32 GB RAM and want to