It flushes when it reaches the memstore size, not plus the global max memstore size.
J-D On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Yves Langisch <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently looking through all the metrics hbase provides and I don't > understand the memstore flushing behavior I see. I thought the memstore is > not flushed until it reaches the maximum memstore size plus the flush size. > In my case this would be 1.6GB+128MB. But I see the following graph: > > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/395716/memstore.gif > > What's the reason for such early flushes? > > - > Yves
