The balancers that ship with accumulo attempt to keep an equal number of tablets on each server. An empty tablet, will be balanced with the same weight as a 50G tablet.
You can write a new balancer to take advantage of the properties of the tablets, and any expected hotspots you have. On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 1:39 AM, Dickson, Matt MR < [email protected]> wrote: > ** > > *UNOFFICIAL* > We are seeing a single server that has less entries than all the other > nodes in the cluster. Accumulo now appears to be directing higher ingest > tablets to this node and its now getting 7 times the ingest entries than > all other nodes and is slowing or load. Does Accumulo attempt to balance > disk usage across the nodes for a table by moving tablets and that is why > we are seeing this node ingesting more? > > If not, is it possible to make accumulo rebalance the ingest across all > servers during a load? > > Matt >
