You really don't want to go to 20GB. Without knowing the number of regions... going beyond 1-2 GB may cause more headaches than its worth.
Sorry, but I tend to be very cautious when it comes to tuning. -Mike On Oct 2, 2012, at 9:20 AM, Damien Hardy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello > > 2012/10/2 Marcos Ortiz <[email protected]> > >> >> Another thing that I´m seeing is that one of your main process is >> compaction, >> so you can optimize all this inceasing the size of your regions (by >> defaulf the size of a >> region is 256 MB), but you will have in your hands a "split/compaction >> storm" like >> Lars called them on his book. > > > Actually it seams like the default value for hbase.hregion.max.filesize in > 0.92 was increased up to 1Go. > http://hbase.apache.org/book/upgrade0.92.html#d2051e266 > > But you can set it to more (max is 20Go) and split manually. > http://hbase.apache.org/book/important_configurations.html#bigger.regions > > Cheers, > > -- > Dam
