Nopes..i am not using any compression.its disabled by default right? Btw i am using hbase 0.94.7
Thanks and Regards, Vimal Jain On Oct 17, 2013 11:19 PM, "lars hofhansl" <[email protected]> wrote: > Are you using any compression? > > > > ________________________________ > From: Vimal Jain <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2013 6:15 AM > Subject: Sudden increase in disk utilization > > > Hi, > I have configured Hbase in pseudo distributed mode. > I have only one table in hbase (event_data). > When i run following command it shows that this table has utilized 8.38 > GB. > > Command :- > *[hadoop@woody logs]$ $HBASE_HOME/bin/hbase org.jruby.Main ~/dus.rb > /hbase/event_data* > > O/P :- > *Warning: $HADOOP_HOME is deprecated. > > hdfs://192.168.20.30:9000/hbase/event_data 8.38 GB > * > > where dus.rb is > > *include Java > import org.apache.hadoop.util.StringUtils > path = ARGV[0] > dus = %x[$HADOOP_HOME/bin/hadoop fs -dus #{path}] > splited = dus.split > byteDesc = StringUtils.byteDesc(splited[1].to_i) > puts splited[0] + "\t" + byteDesc* > > > > In short hbase command shows that disk utilized is around 9 GB but actual > file system usage is 30 GB. > However this difference vanishes if i restart my Hbase. > I am not able to understand this. > Does Hbase keeps lot of files ( in GBs ) open while working ? > -- > Thanks and Regards, > Vimal Jain
