Hello Dalia,
You can turn the balancer on through the shell by using
"balancer_switch true". Alternatively, you can use "balancer()" provided by
the HBaseAdmin class.
HTH
Best Regards,
Tariq
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On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 2:57 AM, Dalia Sobhy <dalia.mohso...@hotmail.com>wrote:
> How to run hbase balancer given that I am using cloudera manager 4.1
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Jan 2, 2013, at 9:13 PM, "Jeff Bean" <jwfb...@cloudera.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Dalia,
> >
> > If all the regions are still on the first server you don't get the
> benefit
> > of the second server. Try running the hbase balancer after adding the
> > second server. Then check to make sure each server is serving the same
> > number of regions.
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 5:52 AM, Adam Smieszny <ad...@cloudera.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Redirecting to hbase-user
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Adam
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Dalia Hassan <daliahass...@gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >>
> >>> Dear all,
> >>>
> >>> I am trying to test the performance of hbase by increasing number of
> >>> nodes.
> >>>
> >>> I am running a Java Program that uses Aggregate Implementation
> >>> Coprocessor i.e count the number of rows based on a specific filter.
> Then I
> >>> am testing by increasing the number of region servers will the time
> taken
> >>> to execute this program will less or not ? Suppose it will be.
> >>>
> >>> But unfortunately, it produces the same time.
> >>>
> >>> What I am doing actually is:
> >>>
> >>> 1. I have the number of rows to be 4 million.
> >>> 2. Then I ran the code, given that the cluster contains one region
> >>> server , the time was approximately 16 seconds.
> >>> 3. After that I added another region server to the cluster i.e so now
> >>> cluster has 2 region servers.
> >>> 4. By running the code, it took the same app 16 seconds.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> So my question is what to do to feel the difference ? Also by adding a
> >>> second region server, will the 2 million records move to it ? If so,
> how
> >>> much time will it take ?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>>
> >>> Waiting for your responses asap.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Adam Smieszny
> >> Cloudera | Systems Engineer | http://www.linkedin.com/in/adamsmieszny
> >> 917.830.4156
> >>
>
