Instead of the shell rowcount you can use the MR job for rowcount.. something 
like
hadoop jar path_to_hbase.jar rowcount your_table

The MR job is much faster than the shell


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On Mon 25 Jun, 2012 4:52 AM IST Jean-Marc Spaggiari wrote:

>Hi,
>
>In HBASE-1512 (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-1512) there
>is the implementation of co-processor for count and others.
>
>Is there anywhere an example of the way to use them? Because the shell
>count is very slow with there is to many rows.
>
>Thanks,
>
>JM

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