Ted, I'm using HBase 0.96.1.2.0.6.1 (HDP 2.0.6).
I set the regionserver log level to *INFO*, so I did not find any log containing "SplitPolicy". I will set the log level to *DEBUG *and take a look at regionserver log later. Thanks Tao 2014-05-29 10:32 GMT+08:00 Ted Yu <[email protected]>: > 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 > > >
