: [Help] minor compact is continuously consuming the disk space
until run out of space?
>We think minor compact is just combining files , say, if we have 10 hfiles
>using 100G disk space, after minor compact, it still should be 100G, if not
>less.
That is partially true. The thing is whe
0G, if not
>> less. It is called compaction, isn't it? So we don't understand why it is
>> using so many extra disk space? Anything wrong in our system?
>>
>> thanks,
>> Ming
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ted Yu [mailto:yuzhih...@gmail.com]
>>
[mailto:yuzhih...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2017 9:54 PM
> To: user@hbase.apache.org
> Subject: Re: [Help] minor compact is continuously consuming the disk space
> until run out of space?
>
> bq. on each Region Server there are about 800 hfiles
>
> Is it possible t
understand why it is using
so many extra disk space? Anything wrong in our system?
thanks,
Ming
-Original Message-
From: Ted Yu [mailto:yuzhih...@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2017 9:54 PM
To: user@hbase.apache.org
Subject: Re: [Help] minor compact is continuously consuming the disk
bq. on each Region Server there are about 800 hfiles
Is it possible to control the number of hfiles during each bulk load ?
For this big table, are the regions evenly spread across the servers ? If
so, consider increasing the capacity of your cluster.
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