I understood that locking is at a row-level (and that my initial
hypothesis is hopefully false) , but I was trying to clarify if there is
some job configuration I am missing. Perhaps you 're right and I am
misinterpreting the jobtracker's map completion graph.
Thanks for answering.
On 09/04/2012 07:41 PM, Michael Segel wrote:
I think the issue is that you are misinterpreting what you are seeing and what
Doug was trying to tell you...
The short simple answer is that you're getting one split per region. Each split
is assigned to a specific mapper task and that task will sequentially walk
through the table finding the rows that match your scan request.
There is no lock or blocking.
I think you really should actually read Lars George's book on HBase to get a
better understanding.
HTH
-Mike
On Sep 4, 2012, at 11:29 AM, Ioakim Perros <[email protected]> wrote:
Thank you very much for your response and for the excellent reference.
The thing is that I am running jobs on a distributed environment and beyond the
TableMapReduceUtil settings,
I have just set the scan ' s caching to the number of rows I expect to retrieve
at each map task, and the scan's caching blocks feature to false (just as it is
indicated at MapReduce examples of HBase's homepage).
I am not aware of such a job configuration (requesting jobtracker to execute
more than 1 map tasks concurrently). Any other ideas?
Thank you again and regards,
ioakim
On 09/04/2012 06:59 PM, Jerry Lam wrote:
Hi Loakim:
Sorry, your hypothesis doesn't make sense. I would suggest you to read the
"Learning HBase Internals" by Lars Hofhansl at
http://www.slideshare.net/cloudera/3-learning-h-base-internals-lars-hofhansl-salesforce-final
to
understand how HBase locking works.
Regarding to the issue you are facing, are you sure you configure the job
properly (i.e. requesting the jobtracker to have more than 1 mapper to
execute)? If you are testing on a single machine, you properly need to
configure the number of tasktracker per node as well to see more than 1
mapper to execute on a single machine.
my $0.02
Jerry
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Ioakim Perros <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello,
I would be grateful if someone could shed a light to the following:
Each M/R map task is reading data from a separate region of a table.
From the jobtracker 's GUI, at the map completion graph, I notice that
although data read from mappers are different, they read data sequentially
- like the table has a lock that permits only one mapper to read data from
every region at a time.
Does this "lock" hypothesis make sense? Is there any way I could avoid
this useless delay?
Thanks in advance and regards,
Ioakim
