Try setting the hbase.balancer.period to a very high number in you hbase-site.xml: http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#hbase.master.dns.nameserver
St.Ack On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Akshay Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to permanently switch off the balancer in HBase, as my request > distribution is not uniform across the data. > > I understand that this can be done by, setting balance_switch to false in > hbase shell > > hbase(main):023:0> balance_switch false > > However, value of balance_switch is reset back to true.. every time I > restart the HBase cluster (which cannot be avoided in my deployment > scenario). > > So my question is : Is there a way to permanently/persistently disable the > hbase balancer ? I could not find a property for this balance_switch. > > I though of one possible solution, which is to set 'hbase.balancer.period' > property to '-1'.. but it does not seems to work. > > Looking for suggestions. > > Thanks, > Akshay
