>>Its recommended that you run major compactions yourself at down times. > >Can we change the `hbase.hregion.majorcompaction` value from 86400000 to >-1 >along with the required code changes and make a note of it in the >hbase-default.xml? Also, the hbase.master.loadbalancer.class is not >specified in the hbase-default.xml. Should I open a JIRA and make those >two >changes?
Note that the importance of non-peak major compactions should be mitigated in 0.92 with multi-threaded compactions. This config recommendation is not a general solution but a way to cope with the existing production-stable feature set.
