Hi Ozhang,

  If you are only bulk loading into HBase, then memstore flush size should
not matter. You most likely you looking to lower the upper/global memstore
limits.
On Aug 3, 2014 2:23 PM, "ozhang" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
> In our hbase cluster memstore flush size is 128 mb. And to insert data to
> tables, we only use bulk load tool. Since bulk loading bypasses memstores,
> they are never used, so we want to minimize memstore flush size. But
> memstore flush size is used in many important calculations in hbase such
> that;
>
> region split size = Min (R^2 * “hbase.hregion.memstore.flush.size”,
> “hbase.hregion.max.filesize”)
>
> So setting memstore value smaller or "0" for example,  results in some
> other
> problems.
> What do you suggest us in that case. Setting memstore size to 128 holds
> some
> memory for tens of regions in region server and we want to get rid of it.
> Thanks a lot.
>
> ozhan
>
>
>
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