I presplit the table. The regionservers have gone down on occassion but have 
been up for a while (weeks). How could that result in having no regions on one 
node?


On Aug 1, 2012, at 11:39 PM, Adrien Mogenet <[email protected]> wrote:

> Did you pre split your table or did you let balancer assign regions to
> regionservers for you ?
> 
> Did your regionserver(s) fail ?
> 
> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Bryan Keller <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> I have an 8 node cluster and a table that is pretty well balanced with on
>> average 36 regions/node. When I run a mapreduce job on the cluster against
>> this table, the data locality of the mappers is poor, e.g 100 rack local
>> mappers and only 188 data local mappers. I would expect nearly all of the
>> mappers to be data local. DNS appears to be fine, i.e. the hostname in the
>> splits is the same as the hostnames in the task attempts.
>> 
>> The performance of the rack local mappers is poor and causes overall scan
>> performance to suffer.
>> 
>> The table isn't new and from what I understand, HDFS replication will
>> eventually keep region data blocks local to the regionserver. Are there
>> other reasons for data locality to be poor and any way to fix it?
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
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