Ah, thanks Ted -- I was wondering what that setting was for. We are using CDH 4.2.0, which is HBase 0.94.2 (give or take a few backports from 0.94.3).
Is there any harm in setting the lease timeout to something larger, like 5 or 10 minutes? Thanks, - Dan On Mar 17, 2013, at 1:46 PM, Ted Yu wrote: > Which HBase version are you using ? > > In 0.94 and prior, the config param is hbase.regionserver.lease.period > > In 0.95, it is different. See release notes of HBASE-6170 > > On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Dan Crosta <[email protected]> wrote: > >> We occasionally get scanner timeout errors such as "66698ms passed since >> the last invocation, timeout is currently set to 60000" when iterating a >> scanner through the Thrift API. Is there any reason not to raise the >> timeout to something larger than the default 60s? Put another way, what >> resources (and how much of them) does a scanner take up on a thrift server >> or region server? >> >> Also, to confirm -- I believe "hbase.rpc.timeout" is the setting in >> question here, but someone please correct me if I'm wrong. >> >> Thanks, >> - Dan >> >> >>
