There is an open jira to add block indexes and bloom filters into the LRU (this would add limits to both). On my phone so don't have the # off hand.
After blooms get committed to trunk I will work on implementing that. On May 19, 2010, at 5:32 AM, "Renaud Delbru" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Stack, > > a last question, > is it possible (or will it be possible) to define a limit to the > maximum > memory used by the store file index (as it is possible for the memory > store) ? Because from what I understand, actually, the store file > index > will grow (linearly ?) with the amount of data stored on hbase. So, my > tuning of hfile block size is working for the moment, but if we double > the amount of data on hbase, we will encounter again the same problem. > -- > Renaud Delbru
