On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:13 AM, N Kapshoo <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have 2 region servers in production that I want to gather some stats > against. I want to run a table scan and count a few things (basic > reporting stuff). Is it a bad idea to run such a scan on a production > environment? Is there something I can do to mitigate the risk? >
A Scan is pretty light-weight operation. Scan how all data access is done (A Get is actually a Scan when you go deep). If a Scan knocks over your cluster, then something is way off indeed. St.Ack
