1st when client wants to write data to HDFS, it should be create DFSOutputStream. Then the client write data to this output stream and this stream will transfer data to all DataNodes with the constructed pipeline by the means of Packet whose size is 64KB. These two operations is concurrent, so the write latency is not simple superposition.
2nd the sync method only flush the last packet ( at most 64KB ) data to the pipeline. Because of the cocurrent processing of all these operations, so the latency is smaller than the superposition of each operation. It's parallel computing rather than serial computing in a sense. 2013/3/28 lei liu <[email protected]> > When client write data, if there are three replicates, the sync method > latency time formula should be: > sync method latency time = first datanode receive data time + sencond > datanode receive data time + third datanode receive data time. > > if the three datanode receive data time all are 2 millisecond, so the sync > method latency time should is 6 millisecond, but according to our our > monitor, the the sync method latency time is 2 millisecond. > > > How to calculate sync method latency time? > > > Thanks, > > LiuLei > >
