Hey Geoff: Is this a 0.90.2 (or .3) hbase? It had some fixup done on the balancer to make it a little more random.
Otherwise, yes, a table should be better spread about the cluster. This has come up a few times here in the past. The case has been well-made by now that the balancer needs to take into consideration the table a region is from and make an effort at distributing tables evenly across the cluster (There is an issue for this already). St.Ack On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Geoff Hendrey <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a table with a hundred or so regions. When I look in the hbase > web ui, I see that all the regions are on one server. Of course we have > many other tables and lots of data. Some tables seem to distribute their > regions amongst many servers. > > > > I know there probably isn't a "pat" answer to this but: wouldn't I want > a large table with many regions to be distributed across many machines? > Just curious to understand the nuance. If I *do* want a uniform > distribution of regions to servers, how would I achieve it? > > > > -geoff > >
