For your 3rd question, if you set hbase.hregion.majorcompaction in your
column family, that would override system-level setting:
long getNextMajorCompactTime() {
// default = 24hrs
long ret = conf.getLong(HConstants.MAJOR_COMPACTION_PERIOD,
1000*60*60*24);
if (family.getValue(HConstants.MAJOR_COMPACTION_PERIOD) != null) {
String strCompactionTime =
family.getValue(HConstants.MAJOR_COMPACTION_PERIOD);
ret = (new Long(strCompactionTime)).longValue();
}
The above is from 0.94 codebase, BTW.
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 6:29 AM, Nicolas Seyvet <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are using code similar to
> https://github.com/jrkinley/hbase-bulk-import-example/ in order to
> benchmark our HBase cluster. We are running a CDH4 installation, and HBase
> is version 0.92.1-cdh4.1.1.. The cluster is composed of 12 slaves and 1
> master and 1 secondary master.
>
> During the bulk load insert, roughly within 3 hours after the start
> (~200Gb), we notice a large drop in performance in the insert rate. At the
> same time, there is a spike in IO and CPU usage. Connecting to a Region
> Server (RS), the Monitored Task section shows that a compaction is started.
>
> I have set hbase.hregion.max.filesize to 107374182400 (100Gb), and disable
> automatic major compaction hbase.hregion.majorcompactionis set to 0.
>
> What we are doing is that we have 1000 files of synthetic data (csv), where
> each row in a file is one row to insert into HBase, each file contains 600K
> rows (or 600K events). Our loader works in the following way:
> 1. Look for a file
> 2. When a file is found, prepare a job for that file
> 3. Launch job
> 4. Wait for completion
> 5. Compute insert rate (nb of rows /time)
> 6. Repeat from 1 until there are no more files.
>
> What I understand of the bulk load M/R job is that it produces one HFile
> for each Region.
>
> Questions:
> - How is HStoreFileSize calclulated?
> - What do HStoreFileSize, storeFileSize and hbase.hregion.max.filesize have
> in common?
> - Can the number of HFiles trigger a major compaction?
>
> Thx for help. I hope my questions make sense.
>
> /Nicolas
>
