Might be related to HBASE-4335

Placido Revilla <[email protected]> schrieb:

>Sorry, resent because I messed up the previous mail.
>
>Hi,
>
>we are experiencing a strange behavior in some tests we are currently
>performing. What we are seeing is that scans on a table that is being
>written to at the same time sometimes end prematurely, with no error.
>This seems to be heavily dependent on the write pattern.
>
>We've been able to reproduce the issue with the standard hbase tools:
>
>in a terminal run:
>
>OLDV=0; OLDT=0; while true; do NEWV=`hbase shell count_testtable |
>head -1 | cut -d' ' -f1`; NEWT=`date +%s`; echo $NEWV " -> " $(((NEWV
>- OLDV) / (NEWT - OLDT))) "msg/s"; OLDV=$NEWV; OLDT=$NEWT; done
>
>where the contents of the file count_testtable are:
>
>count 'TestTable', INTERVAL => 100000000, CACHE => 10000
>exit
>
>This counts the rows in the TestTable repeatedly showing the number of
>rows and the delta rows per second inserted. In the hbase shell count
>is implemented as a full scan with a filter on the row key.
>
>Meanwhile, in another terminal do:
>
>hbase org.apache.hadoop.hbase.PerformanceEvaluation --nomapred
>--rows=20000 randomWrite 5
>
>and when over:
>
>hbase org.apache.hadoop.hbase.PerformanceEvaluation --nomapred
>--rows=20000 sequentialWrite 5
>
>On the scan terminal we are seeing results similar to:
>
>0  ->  0 msg/s
>45552  ->  5694 msg/s <=== randomWrite starts
>63284  ->  2955 msg/s
>63284  ->  0 msg/s  <=== randomWrite ends
>58829  ->  -636 msg/s <=== sequentialWrite starts
>88764  ->  3741 msg/s
>100000  ->  802 msg/s
>100000  ->  0 msg/s <=== sequentialWrite ends
>
>As you can see in the fifth row the count is lower than expected
>(resulting on a negative inserts/sec).
>
>You may need to try a couple of times or tweak the number of rows to
>insert to see the problem.
>
>hbase version: 0.90.4 (tried on a standalone and a full distributed 
>deployment).
>
>We think there must be an error somewhere or something we don't
>understand is slipping by us.
>
>Thanks.
>
>--
>Plácido Revilla
>Senior Backend Engineer
>[email protected]
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