Hi Lin, On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Lin Ma <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you Abhishek, > > Two more comments, > > -- "Client only caches information as needed for its queries and not > necessarily for 'all' region servers." -- how did client know which region > server information is necessary to be cached in current HBase > implementation?
What Abhishek meant here is that it caches only the needed table's rows from META. It also only caches the specific region required for the row you're looking up/operating on, AFAICT. > -- When the client loads region server information for the first time? Did > client persistent cache information at client side about region server > information? The client loads up regionserver information for a table, when it is requested to perform an operation on that table (on a specific row or the whole). It does not immediately, upon initialization, cache the whole of META's contents. Your question makes sense though, that it does seem to be such that a client *may* use quite a bit of memory space in trying to cache the META entries locally, but practically we've not had this cause issues for users yet. The amount of memory cached for META far outweighs the other items it caches (scan results, etc.). At least I have not seen any reports of excessive client memory usage just due to region locations of tables being cached. I think there's more benefits storing/caching it than not doing so, and so far we've not needed the extra complexity of persisting the cache to a local or non-RAM storage than keeping it in memory. -- Harsh J
