https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-11368 related to the original
issue too.
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Ted Yu <yuzhih...@gmail.com> wrote:
> As you noted in the FIXME, there're some factors which should be tackled by
> balancer / assignment manager.
>
> Please continue digging up master log so that we can find the cause for
> balancer not fulfilling your goal.
>
> Cheers
>
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Jianshi Huang <jianshi.hu...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Ok, I fixed this by manually reassign region servers to newly created
> ones.
> >
> > def reassignRegionServer(admin: HBaseAdmin, regions: Seq[HRegionInfo],
> > regionServers: Seq[ServerName]): Unit = {
> > val rand = new Random()
> > regions.foreach { r =>
> > val idx = rand.nextInt(regionServers.size)
> > val server = regionServers(idx)
> > // FIXME: what if selected region server is dead?
> > admin.move(r.getEncodedNameAsBytes,
> > server.getServerName.getBytes("UTF8"))
> > }
> > }
> >
> > er...
> >
> > Jianshi
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 12:24 AM, Jianshi Huang <jianshi.hu...@gmail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hmm...any workaround? I only want to do this:
> > >
> > > Rebalance the new regions *evenly* to all servers after manually adding
> > > splits, so later bulk insertions won't cause contention.
> > >
> > > P.S.
> > > Looks like two of the region servers which had majority of the regions
> > > were down during Major compaction... I guess it had too much data.
> > >
> > >
> > > Jianshi
> > >
> > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 12:13 AM, Jianshi Huang <
> jianshi.hu...@gmail.com
> > >
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >> Yes, I have access to Master UI, however logs/*.log cannot be opened
> or
> > >> downloaded, must be some security restrictions in the proxy...
> > >>
> > >> Jianshi
> > >>
> > >> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 12:06 AM, Ted Yu <yuzhih...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Do you have access to Master UI ?
> > >>>
> > >>> <master-address>:60010/logs/ would show you list of log files.
> > >>>
> > >>> The you can view
> > <master-address>:60010/logs/hbase-<user>-master-XXX.log
> > >>>
> > >>> Cheers
> > >>>
> > >>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Jianshi Huang <
> > jianshi.hu...@gmail.com>
> > >>> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> > Ah... I don't have access to HMaster logs... I need to ask the
> admin.
> > >>> >
> > >>> > Jianshi
> > >>> >
> > >>> > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 11:49 PM, Ted Yu <yuzhih...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >>> >
> > >>> > > bq. assign per-table balancer class
> > >>> > >
> > >>> > > No that I know of.
> > >>> > > Can you pastebin master log involving output from balancer ?
> > >>> > >
> > >>> > > Cheers
> > >>> > >
> > >>> > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Jianshi Huang <
> > >>> jianshi.hu...@gmail.com>
> > >>> > > wrote:
> > >>> > >
> > >>> > > > Hi Ted,
> > >>> > > >
> > >>> > > > I moved setBalancerRunning before balancer and run them twice.
> > >>> However
> > >>> > I
> > >>> > > > still got highly skewed region distribution.
> > >>> > > >
> > >>> > > > I guess it's because of the StochasticLoadBalancer, can I
> assign
> > >>> > > per-table
> > >>> > > > balancer class in HBase?
> > >>> > > >
> > >>> > > >
> > >>> > > > Jianshi
> > >>> > > >
> > >>> > > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 9:50 PM, Ted Yu <yuzhih...@gmail.com>
> > >>> wrote:
> > >>> > > >
> > >>> > > > > admin.setBalancerRunning() call should precede the call to
> > >>> > > > > admin.balancer().
> > >>> > > > >
> > >>> > > > > You can inspect master log to see whether regions are being
> > >>> moved off
> > >>> > > the
> > >>> > > > > heavily loaded server.
> > >>> > > > >
> > >>> > > > > Cheers
> > >>> > > > >
> > >>> > > > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 1:42 AM, Jianshi Huang <
> > >>> > > jianshi.hu...@gmail.com>
> > >>> > > > > wrote:
> > >>> > > > >
> > >>> > > > > > Hi Ted and others,
> > >>> > > > > >
> > >>> > > > > > I did the following after adding splits (without data) to
> my
> > >>> table,
> > >>> > > > > however
> > >>> > > > > > the region is still very imbalanced (one region server has
> > 221
> > >>> > > regions
> > >>> > > > > and
> > >>> > > > > > other 50 region servers have about 4~8 regions each).
> > >>> > > > > >
> > >>> > > > > > admin.balancer()
> > >>> > > > > > admin.setBalancerRunning(true, true)
> > >>> > > > > >
> > >>> > > > > > The balancer class in my HBase cluster is
> > >>> > > > > >
> > >>> > > > > >
> > org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.balancer.StochasticLoadBalancer
> > >>> > > > > >
> > >>> > > > > > So, is this behavior expected? Can I assign different
> > balancer
> > >>> > class
> > >>> > > to
> > >>> > > > > my
> > >>> > > > > > tables (I don't have HBase admin permission)? Which one
> > should
> > >>> I
> > >>> > use?
> > >>> > > > > >
> > >>> > > > > > I just want HBase to evenly distribute the regions even
> they
> > >>> don't
> > >>> > > have
> > >>> > > > > > data (that's the purpose of pre-split I think).
> > >>> > > > > >
> > >>> > > > > >
> > >>> > > > > > Jianshi
> > >>> > > > > >
> > >>> > > > > >
> > >>> > > > > > On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 12:45 AM, Ted Yu <
> yuzhih...@gmail.com
> > >
> > >>> > wrote:
> > >>> > > > > >
> > >>> > > > > > > Yes. See the following method in HBaseAdmin:
> > >>> > > > > > >
> > >>> > > > > > > public boolean balancer()
> > >>> > > > > > >
> > >>> > > > > > >
> > >>> > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Jianshi Huang <
> > >>> > > > jianshi.hu...@gmail.com
> > >>> > > > > >
> > >>> > > > > > > wrote:
> > >>> > > > > > >
> > >>> > > > > > > > Thanks Ted!
> > >>> > > > > > > >
> > >>> > > > > > > > Didn't know I still need to run the 'balancer' command.
> > >>> > > > > > > >
> > >>> > > > > > > > Is there a way to do it programmatically?
> > >>> > > > > > > >
> > >>> > > > > > > > Jianshi
> > >>> > > > > > > >
> > >>> > > > > > > >
> > >>> > > > > > > >
> > >>> > > > > > > > On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 12:29 AM, Ted Yu <
> > >>> yuzhih...@gmail.com>
> > >>> > > > wrote:
> > >>> > > > > > > >
> > >>> > > > > > > > > After splitting the region, you may need to run
> > balancer
> > >>> to
> > >>> > > > spread
> > >>> > > > > > the
> > >>> > > > > > > > new
> > >>> > > > > > > > > regions out.
> > >>> > > > > > > > >
> > >>> > > > > > > > > Cheers
> > >>> > > > > > > > >
> > >>> > > > > > > > >
> > >>> > > > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Jianshi Huang <
> > >>> > > > > > jianshi.hu...@gmail.com
> > >>> > > > > > > >
> > >>> > > > > > > > > wrote:
> > >>> > > > > > > > >
> > >>> > > > > > > > > > Hi Shahab,
> > >>> > > > > > > > > >
> > >>> > > > > > > > > > I see, that seems to be the right way...
> > >>> > > > > > > > > >
> > >>> > > > > > > > > >
> > >>> > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 12:21 AM, Shahab Yunus <
> > >>> > > > > > > shahab.yu...@gmail.com>
> > >>> > > > > > > > > > wrote:
> > >>> > > > > > > > > >
> > >>> > > > > > > > > > > Shahab
> > >>> > > > > > > > > >
> > >>> > > > > > > > > >
> > >>> > > > > > > > > >
> > >>> > > > > > > > > >
> > >>> > > > > > > > > >
> > >>> > > > > > > > > > --
> > >>> > > > > > > > > > Jianshi Huang
> > >>> > > > > > > > > >
> > >>> > > > > > > > > > LinkedIn: jianshi
> > >>> > > > > > > > > > Twitter: @jshuang
> > >>> > > > > > > > > > Github & Blog: http://huangjs.github.com/
> > >>> > > > > > > > > >
> > >>> > > > > > > > >
> > >>> > > > > > > >
> > >>> > > > > > > >
> > >>> > > > > > > >
> > >>> > > > > > > > --
> > >>> > > > > > > > Jianshi Huang
> > >>> > > > > > > >
> > >>> > > > > > > > LinkedIn: jianshi
> > >>> > > > > > > > Twitter: @jshuang
> > >>> > > > > > > > Github & Blog: http://huangjs.github.com/
> > >>> > > > > > > >
> > >>> > > > > > >
> > >>> > > > > >
> > >>> > > > > >
> > >>> > > > > >
> > >>> > > > > > --
> > >>> > > > > > Jianshi Huang
> > >>> > > > > >
> > >>> > > > > > LinkedIn: jianshi
> > >>> > > > > > Twitter: @jshuang
> > >>> > > > > > Github & Blog: http://huangjs.github.com/
> > >>> > > > > >
> > >>> > > > >
> > >>> > > >
> > >>> > > >
> > >>> > > >
> > >>> > > > --
> > >>> > > > Jianshi Huang
> > >>> > > >
> > >>> > > > LinkedIn: jianshi
> > >>> > > > Twitter: @jshuang
> > >>> > > > Github & Blog: http://huangjs.github.com/
> > >>> > > >
> > >>> > >
> > >>> >
> > >>> >
> > >>> >
> > >>> > --
> > >>> > Jianshi Huang
> > >>> >
> > >>> > LinkedIn: jianshi
> > >>> > Twitter: @jshuang
> > >>> > Github & Blog: http://huangjs.github.com/
> > >>> >
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> Jianshi Huang
> > >>
> > >> LinkedIn: jianshi
> > >> Twitter: @jshuang
> > >> Github & Blog: http://huangjs.github.com/
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Jianshi Huang
> > >
> > > LinkedIn: jianshi
> > > Twitter: @jshuang
> > > Github & Blog: http://huangjs.github.com/
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jianshi Huang
> >
> > LinkedIn: jianshi
> > Twitter: @jshuang
> > Github & Blog: http://huangjs.github.com/
> >
>
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