For your query tests, are they all from a single thread? Have you tried reading 
from multiple threads/processes in parallel - that sounds more like your use 
case.  

-chris



On Apr 25, 2011, at 10:04 PM, Weihua JIANG <[email protected]> wrote:

> The query is all random read. The scenario is that a user want to
> query his own monthly bill report, e.g. to query what happened on his
> bill in March, or Feb, etc. Since every user may want to do so, we
> can't predict who will be the next to ask for such monthly bill
> report.
> 
> 2011/4/26 Stack <[email protected]>:
>>> Currently, to store bill records, we can achieve about 30K record/second.
>>> 
>> 
>> Can you use bulk load?  See http://hbase.apache.org/bulk-loads.html
>> 
>>> However, the query performance is quite poor. We can only achieve
>>> about 600~700 month_report/second. That is, each region server can
>>> only serve query for about 100 row/second. Block cache hit ratio is
>>> about 20%.
>>> 
>> 
>> This is random accesses?  Why random accesses and not scans?
>> 
>> 
>>> Do you have any advice on how to improve the query performance?
>>> 
>> 
>> See above cited performance section from website book.
>> 
>> 
>>> Below is some metrics info reported by region server:
>>> 2011-04-26T10:56:12 hbase.regionserver:
>>> RegionServer=regionserver50820, blockCacheCount=40969,
>>> blockCacheEvictedCount=216359, blockCacheFree=671152504,
>>> blockCacheHitCachingRatio=20, blockCacheHitCount=67936,
>>> blockCacheHitRatio=20, blockCacheMissCount=257675,
>>> blockCacheSize=2743351688, compactionQueueSize=0,
>>> compactionSize_avg_time=0, compactionSize_num_ops=7,
>>> compactionTime_avg_time=0, compactionTime_num_ops=7, flushQueueSize=0,
>>> flushSize_avg_time=0, flushSize_num_ops=0, flushTime_avg_time=0,
>>> flushTime_num_ops=0, fsReadLatency_avg_time=46,
>>> fsReadLatency_num_ops=257905, fsSyncLatency_avg_time=0,
>>> fsSyncLatency_num_ops=1726, fsWriteLatency_avg_time=0,
>>> fsWriteLatency_num_ops=0, memstoreSizeMB=0, regions=169,
>>> requests=82.1, storefileIndexSizeMB=188, storefiles=343, stores=169
>>> 2011-04-26T10:56:22 hbase.regionserver:
>>> RegionServer=regionserver50820, blockCacheCount=42500,
>>> blockCacheEvictedCount=216359, blockCacheFree=569659040,
>>> blockCacheHitCachingRatio=20, blockCacheHitCount=68418,
>>> blockCacheHitRatio=20, blockCacheMissCount=259206,
>>> blockCacheSize=2844845152, compactionQueueSize=0,
>>> compactionSize_avg_time=0, compactionSize_num_ops=7,
>>> compactionTime_avg_time=0, compactionTime_num_ops=7, flushQueueSize=0,
>>> flushSize_avg_time=0, flushSize_num_ops=0, flushTime_avg_time=0,
>>> flushTime_num_ops=0, fsReadLatency_avg_time=44,
>>> fsReadLatency_num_ops=259547, fsSyncLatency_avg_time=0,
>>> fsSyncLatency_num_ops=1736, fsWriteLatency_avg_time=0,
>>> fsWriteLatency_num_ops=0, memstoreSizeMB=0, regions=169,
>>> requests=92.2, storefileIndexSizeMB=188, storefiles=343, stores=169
>>> 2011-04-26T10:56:32 hbase.regionserver:
>>> RegionServer=regionserver50820, blockCacheCount=39238,
>>> blockCacheEvictedCount=221509, blockCacheFree=785944072,
>>> blockCacheHitCachingRatio=20, blockCacheHitCount=69043,
>>> blockCacheHitRatio=20, blockCacheMissCount=261095,
>>> blockCacheSize=2628560120, compactionQueueSize=0,
>>> compactionSize_avg_time=0, compactionSize_num_ops=7,
>>> compactionTime_avg_time=0, compactionTime_num_ops=7, flushQueueSize=0,
>>> flushSize_avg_time=0, flushSize_num_ops=0, flushTime_avg_time=0,
>>> flushTime_num_ops=0, fsReadLatency_avg_time=39,
>>> fsReadLatency_num_ops=261070, fsSyncLatency_avg_time=0,
>>> fsSyncLatency_num_ops=1746, fsWriteLatency_avg_time=0,
>>> fsWriteLatency_num_ops=0, memstoreSizeMB=0, regions=169,
>>> requests=128.77777, storefileIndexSizeMB=188, storefiles=343,
>>> stores=169
>>> 
>> 
>> This is hard to read but I don't see anything obnoxious.
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> And we also tried to disable block cache, it seems the performance is
>>> even a little bit better. And it we use the configuration 6 DN servers
>>> + 3 RS servers, we can get better throughput at about 1000
>>> month_report/second.  I am confused. Can any one explain the reason?
>>> 
>> 
>> Sounds like you are doing all random reads?  Do you have to?
>> 
>> St.Ack
>> 

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