What Ted says or you could change the hfile block size; currently its 64k. Make it bigger? Do you have big keys and small values? If so, can you make do with smaller keys? That would help with index size too.
St.Ack On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 5:29 AM, Gaojinchao <[email protected]> wrote: > My observation is that storefileIndexSize is large. > Is there a way to reduce it ? > > Region server metric: > requests=11447, regions=10394, stores=10394, storefiles=3103, > storefileIndexSize=3717, > memstoreSize=1002, compactionQueueSize=1234, flushQueueSize=0, usedHeap=6916, > maxHeap=8165, blockCacheSize=1394662632, blockCacheFree=317661976, > blockCacheCount=53394, > blockCacheHitCount=16229024, blockCacheMissCount=91803814, > blockCacheEvictedCount=22381853, > blockCacheHitRatio=15, blockCacheHitCachingRatio=41 >
