Which HBase release are you using ? Can you look in the region server log which SplitPolicy is in effect ? Below is a sample log snippet:
2014-04-09 15:35:03,737 DEBUG [MemStoreFlusher.0] regionserver.IncreasingToUpperBoundRegionSplitPolicy: ShouldSplit because On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 6:49 PM, Tao Xiao <[email protected]> wrote: > I hope each region can be 10GB in size, so I set the property > *hbase.hregion.max.filesize* as 10737418240, which is 10GB. Then I > restarted the HBase cluster. > > To check whether this property works, I created a new table and wrote a > lot of records into it. However, when I checked the size of the regions of > that table, I found that each region is far smaller than 10GB. Actually, > regions of that table are about 3GB in size. > > I guess there are other factors that would trigger a region split, albeit I > set the property *hbase.hregion.max.filesize* as 10GB. Am I right ? > > Thanks. > > > Tao >
