Compactions are chosen and executed on the region servers. So changing the configs on the region servers will be necessary. That will require a rolling restart.
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 1:30 AM, Matthias Hofschen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > I would like to temporarily reduce the number of changes to hfiles through > minor and major compactions and splitting to a minimum. Is there a way to > achieve this without having to restart the entire cluster. Perhaps it would > be enough for example to set: hbase.hregion.majorcompaction=0 only on the > hbase-master process and restart it. > > What do you think? > Cheers Matthias
