that is strange. we hit it in 0.94 as well: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-11695 what Nicolas raised makes sense to me, but revisiting the code, the flush every 10s in the RS log actually comes from HRegion#shouldFlush, so there is sth triggered..
could you pastebin the RS log? On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 6:59 PM, Brian Jeltema < brian.jelt...@digitalenvoy.net> wrote: > > > out of curiosity, did you see below messages in RS log? > > > > LOG.warn("Snapshot called again without clearing previous. " + > > "Doing nothing. Another ongoing flush or did we fail last > > attempt?”); > > > Nope > > > > > > thanks. > > > > On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 2:15 AM, Brian Jeltema < > > brian.jelt...@digitalenvoy.net> wrote: > > > >> I’ve resolved these problems by restarting the region server that owned > >> the region in question. > >> I don’t know what the underlying issue was, but at this point it’s not > >> worth pursuing. > >> > >> Thanks for responding. > >> > >> Brian > >> > >> On Sep 8, 2014, at 11:06 AM, Brian Jeltema < > brian.jelt...@digitalenvoy.net> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> I realized today that the region server logs for the region being > >> updated (startKey=\x00DDD@) contains the following: > >>> > >>> 2014-09-08 06:25:50,223 INFO [regionserver60020.periodicFlusher] > >> regionserver.HRegionServer: regionserver60020.periodicFlusher requesting > >> flush for region Host,\x00DDD@ > ,1400624237999.5bb6bd41597ddd8dd7ca03e78f3a3e65. > >> after a delay of 11302 > >>> 2014-09-08 06:26:00,222 INFO [regionserver60020.periodicFlusher] > >> regionserver.HRegionServer: regionserver60020.periodicFlusher requesting > >> flush for region Host,\x00DDD@ > ,1400624237999.5bb6bd41597ddd8dd7ca03e78f3a3e65. > >> after a delay of 21682 > >>> 2014-09-08 06:26:10,223 INFO [regionserver60020.periodicFlusher] > >> regionserver.HRegionServer: regionserver60020.periodicFlusher requesting > >> flush for region Host,\x00DDD@ > ,1400624237999.5bb6bd41597ddd8dd7ca03e78f3a3e65. > >> after a delay of 5724 > >>> 2014-09-08 06:26:20,223 INFO [regionserver60020.periodicFlusher] > >> regionserver.HRegionServer: regionserver60020.periodicFlusher requesting > >> flush for region Host,\x00DDD@ > ,1400624237999.5bb6bd41597ddd8dd7ca03e78f3a3e65. > >> after a delay of 11962 > >>> 2014-09-08 06:26:30,223 INFO [regionserver60020.periodicFlusher] > >> regionserver.HRegionServer: regionserver60020.periodicFlusher requesting > >> flush for region Host,\x00DDD@ > ,1400624237999.5bb6bd41597ddd8dd7ca03e78f3a3e65. > >> after a delay of 7693 > >>> 2014-09-08 06:26:40,224 INFO [regionserver60020.periodicFlusher] > >> regionserver.HRegionServer: regionserver60020.periodicFlusher requesting > >> flush for region Host,\x00DDD@ > ,1400624237999.5bb6bd41597ddd8dd7ca03e78f3a3e65. > >> after a delay of 5578 > >>> 2014-09-08 06:26:50,223 INFO [regionserver60020.periodicFlusher] > >> regionserver.HRegionServer: regionserver60020.periodicFlusher requesting > >> flush for region Host,\x00DDD@ > ,1400624237999.5bb6bd41597ddd8dd7ca03e78f3a3e65. > >> after a delay of 12420 > >>> > >>> a log entry being generated every 10 seconds starting about 4 days ago. > >> I presume these problems are related. > >>> > >>> On Sep 8, 2014, at 7:10 AM, Brian Jeltema < > >> brian.jelt...@digitalenvoy.net> wrote: > >>> > >>>> > >>>>> When number of attempts is greater than the value of > >>>>> hbase.client.start.log.errors.counter (default 9), AsyncProcess would > >>>>> produce logs cited below. > >>>>> The interval following 'retrying after ' is the backoff time. > >>>>> > >>>>> Which release of HBase are you using ? > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> HBase Version 0.98.0.2.1.1.0-385-hadoop2 > >>>> > >>>> The MR job is reading from an HBase snapshot, if that’s relevant. > >>>> > >>>>> Cheers > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Brian Jeltema < > >>>>> brian.jelt...@digitalenvoy.net> wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>>> I have a map/reduce job that is consistently failing with timeouts. > >> The > >>>>>> failing mapper log files contain a series > >>>>>> of records similar to those below. When I look at the hbase and hdfs > >> logs > >>>>>> (on foo.net in this case) I don’t see > >>>>>> anything obvious at these timestamps. The mapper task times out > >> at/near > >>>>>> attempt=25/35. Can anyone shed light > >>>>>> on what these log entries mean? > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Thanks - Brian > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> 2014-09-07 09:36:51,421 INFO [htable-pool1-t1] > >>>>>> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.AsyncProcess: #3, table=Host, > primary, > >>>>>> attempt=10/35 failed 1062 ops, last exception: null on foo.net > >> ,60020,1406043467187, > >>>>>> tracking started null, retrying after 10029 ms, replay 1062 ops > >>>>>> 2014-09-07 09:37:01,642 INFO [htable-pool1-t1] > >>>>>> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.AsyncProcess: #3, table=Host, > primary, > >>>>>> attempt=11/35 failed 1062 ops, last exception: null on foo.net > >> ,60020,1406043467187, > >>>>>> tracking started null, retrying after 10023 ms, replay 1062 ops > >>>>>> 2014-09-07 09:37:12,064 INFO [htable-pool1-t1] > >>>>>> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.AsyncProcess: #3, table=Host, > primary, > >>>>>> attempt=12/35 failed 1062 ops, last exception: null on foo.net > >> ,60020,1406043467187, > >>>>>> tracking started null, retrying after 20182 ms, replay 1062 ops > >>>>>> 2014-09-07 09:37:32,708 INFO [htable-pool1-t1] > >>>>>> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.AsyncProcess: #3, table=Host, > primary, > >>>>>> attempt=13/35 failed 1062 ops, last exception: null on foo.net > >> ,60020,1406043467187, > >>>>>> tracking started null, retrying after 20140 ms, replay 1062 ops > >>>>>> 2014-09-07 09:37:52,940 INFO [htable-pool1-t1] > >>>>>> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.AsyncProcess: #3, table=Host, > primary, > >>>>>> attempt=14/35 failed 1062 ops, last exception: null on foo.net > >> ,60020,1406043467187, > >>>>>> tracking started null, retrying after 20041 ms, replay 1062 ops > >>>>>> 2014-09-07 09:38:13,324 INFO [htable-pool1-t1] > >>>>>> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.AsyncProcess: #3, table=Host, > primary, > >>>>>> attempt=15/35 failed 1062 ops, last exception: null on foo.net > >> ,60020,1406043467187, > >>>>>> tracking started null, retrying after 20041 ms, replay 1062 ops > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>> > >>> > >> > >> > >