On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Sharma, Avani <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am currently running under Hbasev0.20.3. I increased the block cache to .4 > from .2. The heap size is 2GB. > The default regionserver handler count is 25 in hbase-default.xml. Will try > LZO compression. >
Up your handlers to 100. Up your block cache even more... .5 or .6 even if you mostly random reading. Can you give it more RAM than 4G? > What are other performance tunings I can do ? > In particular, will applying HBASE-2180 or upgrading to a newer version help ? > Yes, hbase-2180 will make a difference. You should upgrade to 0.20.6 to catch 2180 and other fixes. > Another thing I notice is that the performance via stargate vs Java api is > comparable for random reads.I thought stargate would have some latency. Is > this expected? I'd expect come tax going via REST. St.Ack
