The speed of the master isnt a big deal, since it isnt involve in the
read/write path at all.

3000 records? Depending on the size, but for small records many people
get multi-thousand/server, and on large ones, hundreds.

-ryan

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Jack Levin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Quick question, if you have say 3000 records, on 13 servers, with each
> region being 1GB, how long do we expect those regions to load? (Master
> is dual core, with 8 GB RAM)
>
> Also, what does this line mean:
>
> ZKUnassignedWatcher: ZK-EVENT-PROCESS: Got zkEvent NodeDeleted
> state:SyncConnected path:/hbase/UNASSIGNED/1735906890
>
> -Jack
>
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Jack Levin <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Awesome, thanks!... I will give it a whirl on our test cluster.
>>
>> -Jack
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Ryan Rawson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> So we are running this code in production:
>>>
>>> http://github.com/stumbleupon/hbase
>>>
>>> The branch off point is 8dc5a1a353ffc9fa57ac59618f76928b5eb31f6c, and
>>> everything past that is our rebase and cherry-picked changes.
>>>
>>> We use git to manage this internally, and don't use svn.  Included is
>>> the LZO libraries we use checked directly into the code, and the
>>> assembly changes to publish those.
>>>
>>> So when we are ready to do a deploy, we do this:
>>> mvn install assembly:assembly
>>> (or include the -DskipTests to make it go faster)
>>>
>>> and then we have a new tarball to deploy.
>>>
>>> Note there is absolutely NO warranty here, not even that it will run
>>> for a microsecond... futhermore this is NOT an ASF release, just a
>>> courtesy.  If there ever was to be a release it would look
>>> differently, because ASF releases cant include GPL code (this does)
>>> and depend on commercial releases of haoopp.
>>>
>>> Enjoy,
>>> -ryan
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Ryan Rawson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> no no, 20 GB heap per node.  each node with 24-32gb ram, etc.
>>>>
>>>> we cant rely on the linux buffer cache to save us, so we have to cache
>>>> in hbase ram.
>>>>
>>>> :-)
>>>>
>>>> -ryan
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 9:44 PM, Jack Levin <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> 20GB+?, hmmm..... I do plan to run 50 regionserver nodes though, with
>>>>> 3 GB Heap likely, this should be plenty to rip through say, 350TB of
>>>>> data.
>>>>>
>>>>> -Jack
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Ryan Rawson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> yes that is the new ZK based coordination.  when i publish the SU code
>>>>>> we have a patch which limits that and is faster.  2GB is a little
>>>>>> small for a regionserver memory... in my ideal world we'll be putting
>>>>>> 20GB+ of ram to regionserver.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I just figured you were using the DEB/RPMs because your files were in
>>>>>> /usr/local... I usually run everything out of /home/hadoop b/c it
>>>>>> allows me to easily rsync as user hadoop.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> but you are on the right track yes :-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Jack Levin <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>> Who said anything about deb :). I do use tarballs.... Yes, so what did
>>>>>>> it is the copy of that jar to under hbase/lib, and then full restart.
>>>>>>>  Now here is a funny thing, the master shuddered for about 10 minutes,
>>>>>>> spewing those messages:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 2010-09-20 21:23:45,826 DEBUG org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.HMaster:
>>>>>>> Event NodeCreated with state SyncConnected with path
>>>>>>> /hbase/UNASSIGNED/97999366
>>>>>>> 2010-09-20 21:23:45,827 DEBUG
>>>>>>> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.ZKMasterAddressWatcher: Got event
>>>>>>> NodeCreated with path /hbase/UNASSIGNED/97999366
>>>>>>> 2010-09-20 21:23:45,827 DEBUG
>>>>>>> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.ZKUnassignedWatcher: ZK-EVENT-PROCESS:
>>>>>>> Got zkEvent NodeCreated state:SyncConnected
>>>>>>> path:/hbase/UNASSIGNED/97999366
>>>>>>> 2010-09-20 21:23:45,827 DEBUG
>>>>>>> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.RegionManager: Created/updated
>>>>>>> UNASSIGNED zNode img15,normal052q.jpg,1285001686282.97999366 in state
>>>>>>> M2ZK_REGION_OFFLINE
>>>>>>> 2010-09-20 21:23:45,828 INFO
>>>>>>> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.RegionServerOperation:
>>>>>>> img13,p1000319tq.jpg,1284952655960.812544765 open on
>>>>>>> 10.103.2.3,60020,1285042333293
>>>>>>> 2010-09-20 21:23:45,828 DEBUG
>>>>>>> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.ZKUnassignedWatcher: Got event type [
>>>>>>> M2ZK_REGION_OFFLINE ] for region 97999366
>>>>>>> 2010-09-20 21:23:45,828 DEBUG org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.HMaster:
>>>>>>> Event NodeChildrenChanged with state SyncConnected with path
>>>>>>> /hbase/UNASSIGNED
>>>>>>> 2010-09-20 21:23:45,828 DEBUG
>>>>>>> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.ZKMasterAddressWatcher: Got event
>>>>>>> NodeChildrenChanged with path /hbase/UNASSIGNED
>>>>>>> 2010-09-20 21:23:45,828 DEBUG
>>>>>>> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.ZKUnassignedWatcher: ZK-EVENT-PROCESS:
>>>>>>> Got zkEvent NodeChildrenChanged state:SyncConnected
>>>>>>> path:/hbase/UNASSIGNED
>>>>>>> 2010-09-20 21:23:45,830 DEBUG
>>>>>>> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.BaseScanner: Current assignment of
>>>>>>> img150,,1284859678248.3116007 is not valid;
>>>>>>> serverAddress=10.103.2.1:60020, startCode=1285038205920 unknown.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Does anyone know what they mean?   At first it would kill one of my
>>>>>>> datanodes.  But what helped is when I changed to heap size to 4GB for
>>>>>>> master and 2GB for datanode that was dying, and after 10 minutes I got
>>>>>>> into a clean state.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -Jack
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Ryan Rawson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>> yes, on every single machine as well, and restart.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> again, not sure how how you'd do this in a scalable manner with your
>>>>>>>> deb packages... on the source tarball you can just replace it, rsync
>>>>>>>> it out and done.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> :-)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Jack Levin <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> ok, I found that file, do I replace hadoop-core.*.jar under 
>>>>>>>>> /usr/lib/hbase/lib?
>>>>>>>>> Then restart, etc?  All regionservers too?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> -Jack
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Ryan Rawson <[email protected]> 
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Well I don't really run CDH, I disagree with their rpm/deb packaging
>>>>>>>>>> policies and I have to highly recommend not using DEBs to install
>>>>>>>>>> software...
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> So normally installing from tarball, the jar is in
>>>>>>>>>> <installpath>/hadoop-0.20.0-320/hadoop-core-0.20.2+320.jar
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On CDH/DEB edition, it's somewhere silly ... locate and find will be
>>>>>>>>>> your friend.  It should be called hadoop-core-0.20.2+320.jar though!
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I'm working on a github publish of SU's production system, which uses
>>>>>>>>>> the cloudera maven repo to install the correct JAR in hbase so when
>>>>>>>>>> you type 'mvn assembly:assembly' to build your own hbase-*-bin.tar.gz
>>>>>>>>>> (the * being whatever version you specified in pom.xml) the cdh3b2 
>>>>>>>>>> jar
>>>>>>>>>> comes pre-packaged.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Stay tuned :-)
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> -ryan
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Jack Levin <[email protected]> 
>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> Ryan, hadoop jar, what is the usual path to the file? I just to to 
>>>>>>>>>>> be
>>>>>>>>>>> sure, and where do I put it?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> -Jack
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Ryan Rawson <[email protected]> 
>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> you need 2 more things:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> - restart hdfs
>>>>>>>>>>>> - make sure the hadoop jar from your install replaces the one we 
>>>>>>>>>>>> ship with
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Jack Levin <[email protected]> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> So, I switched to 0.89, and we already had CDH3
>>>>>>>>>>>>> (hadoop-0.20-datanode-0.20.2+320-3.noarch), even though I added
>>>>>>>>>>>>>  <name>dfs.support.append</name> as true to both hdfs-site.xml and
>>>>>>>>>>>>> hbase-site.xml, the master still reports this:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>  You are currently running the HMaster without HDFS append support
>>>>>>>>>>>>> enabled. This may result in data loss. Please see the HBase wiki  
>>>>>>>>>>>>> for
>>>>>>>>>>>>> details.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Master Attributes
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Attribute Name  Value   Description
>>>>>>>>>>>>> HBase Version   0.89.20100726, r979826  HBase version and svn 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> revision
>>>>>>>>>>>>> HBase Compiled  Sat Jul 31 02:01:58 PDT 2010, stack     When 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> HBase version
>>>>>>>>>>>>> was compiled and by whom
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hadoop Version  0.20.2, r911707 Hadoop version and svn revision
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hadoop Compiled Fri Feb 19 08:07:34 UTC 2010, chrisdo   When 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hadoop
>>>>>>>>>>>>> version was compiled and by whom
>>>>>>>>>>>>> HBase Root Directory    
>>>>>>>>>>>>> hdfs://namenode-rd.imageshack.us:9000/hbase     Location
>>>>>>>>>>>>> of HBase home directory
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Any ideas whats wrong?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> -Jack
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Ryan Rawson <[email protected]> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hey,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> There is actually only 1 active branch of hbase, that being the 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 0.89
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> release, which is based on 'trunk'.  We have snapshotted a 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> series of
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 0.89 "developer releases" in hopes that people would try them 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> our and
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> start thinking about the next major version.  One of these is 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> what SU
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is running prod on.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> At this point tracking 0.89 and which ones are the 'best' peach 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> sets
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to run is a bit of a contact sport, but if you are serious about 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> not
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> losing data it is worthwhile.  SU is based on the most recent DR 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> with
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> a few minor patches of our own concoction brought in.  If current
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> works, but some Master ops are slow, and there are a few patches 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> on
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> top of that.  I'll poke about and see if its possible to publish 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to a
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> github branch or something.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> -ryan
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Jack Levin <[email protected]> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Sounds, good, only reason I ask is because of this:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> There are currently two active branches of HBase:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>    * 0.20 - the current stable release series, being maintained 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> with
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> patches for bug fixes only. This release series does not 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> support HDFS
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> durability - edits may be lost in the case of node failure.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>    * 0.89 - a development release series with active feature and
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> stability development, not currently recommended for production 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> use.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> This release does support HDFS durability - cases in which 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> edits are
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> lost are considered serious bugs.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Are we talking about data loss in case of datanode going down 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> while
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> being written to, or RegionServer going down?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> -jack
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Ryan Rawson 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> We run 0.89 in production @ Stumbleupon.  We also employ 3 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> committers...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> As for safety, you have no choice but to run 0.89.  If you run 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> a 0.20
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> release you will lose data.  you must be on 0.89 and
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> CDH3/append-branch to achieve data durability, and there 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> really is no
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> argument around it.  If you are doing your tests with 0.20.6 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> now, I'd
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> stop and rebase those tests onto the latest DR announced on 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the list.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> -ryan
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Jack Levin 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi Stack, see inline:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Stack <[email protected]> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hey Jack:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks for writing.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> See below for some comments.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Jack Levin 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Image-Shack gets close to two million image uploads per 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> day, which are
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> usually stored on regular servers (we have about 700), as 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> regular
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> files, and each server has its own host name, such as 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (img55).   I've
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> been researching on how to improve our backend design in 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> terms of data
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> safety and stumped onto the Hbase project.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Any other requirements other than data safety? (latency, 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> etc).
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Latency is the second requirement.  We have some services 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that are
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> very short tail, and can produce 95% cache hit rate, so I 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> assume this
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> would really put cache into good use.  Some other services 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> however,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> have about 25% cache hit ratio, in which case the latency 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> should be
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 'adequate', e.g. if its slightly worse than getting data off 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> raw disk,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> then its good enough.   Safely is supremely important, then 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> its
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> availability, then speed.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Now, I think hbase is he most beautiful thing that happen to
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> distributed DB world :).   The idea is to store image files 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (about
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 400Kb on average into HBASE).
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I'd guess some images are much bigger than this.  Do you 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ever limit
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the size of images folks can upload to your service?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The setup will include the following
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> configuration:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 50 servers total (2 datacenters), with 8 GB RAM, dual core 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> cpu, 6 x
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 2TB disks each.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 3 to 5 Zookeepers
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 2 Masters (in a datacenter each)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 10 to 20 Stargate REST instances (one per server, hash 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> loadbalanced)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Whats your frontend?  Why REST?  It might be more efficient 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> if you
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> could run with thrift given REST base64s its payload IIRC 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (check the
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> src yourself).
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> For insertion we use Haproxy, and balance curl PUTs across 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> multiple REST APIs.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> For reading, its a nginx proxy that does Content-type 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> modification
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> from image/jpeg to octet-stream, and vice versa,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> it then hits Haproxy again, which hits balanced REST.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Why REST, it was the simplest thing to run, given that its 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> supports
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> HTTP, potentially we could rewrite something for thrift, as 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> long as we
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> can use http still to send and receive data (anyone wrote 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> anything
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> like that say in python, C or java?)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 40 to 50 RegionServers (will probably keep masters separate 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> on dedicated boxes).
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 2 Namenode servers (one backup, highly available, will do 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> fsimage and
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> edits snapshots also)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> So far I got about 13 servers running, and doing about 20 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> insertions /
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> second (file size ranging from few KB to 2-3MB, ave. 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 400KB). via
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Stargate API.  Our frontend servers receive files, and I 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> just
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> fork-insert them into stargate via http (curl).
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The inserts are humming along nicely, without any 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> noticeable load on
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> regionservers, so far inserted about 2 TB worth of images.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I have adjusted the region file size to be 512MB, and table 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> block size
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to about 400KB , trying to match average access block to 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> limit HDFS
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> trips.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> As Todd suggests, I'd go up from 512MB... 1G at least.  
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> You'll
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> probably want to up your flush size from 64MB to 128MB or 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> maybe 192MB.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Yep, i will adjust to 1G.  I thought flush was controlled by a
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> function of memstore HEAP, something like 40%?  Or are you 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> talking
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> about HDFS block size?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>  So far the read performance was more than adequate, and of
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> course write performance is nowhere near capacity.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> So right now, all newly uploaded images go to HBASE.  But 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> we do plan
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to insert about 170 Million images (about 100 days worth), 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> which is
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> only about 64 TB, or 10% of planned cluster size of 600TB.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The end goal is to have a storage system that creates data 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> safety,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> e.g. system may go down but data can not be lost.   Our 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Front-End
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> servers will continue to serve images from their own file 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> system (we
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> are serving about 16 Gbits at peak), however should we need 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to bring
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> any of those down for maintenance, we will redirect all 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> traffic to
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hbase (should be no more than few hundred Mbps), while the 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> front end
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> server is repaired (for example having its disk replaced), 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> after the
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> repairs, we quickly repopulate it with missing files, while 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> serving
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the missing remaining off Hbase.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> All in all should be very interesting project, and I am 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> hoping not to
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> run into any snags, however, should that happens, I am 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> pleased to know
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that such a great and vibrant tech group exists that 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> supports and uses
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> HBASE :).
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> We're definetly interested in how your project progresses.  
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> If you are
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ever up in the city, you should drop by for a chat.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Cool.  I'd like that.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> St.Ack
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> P.S. I'm also w/ Todd that you should move to 0.89 and 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> blooms.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> P.P.S I updated the wiki on stargate REST:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hbase/Stargate
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Cool, I assume if we move to that it won't kill existing meta 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> tables,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and data?  e.g. cross compatible?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Is 0.89 ready for production environment?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> -Jack
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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