Polling as you described is fine.
catalogJanitor.cleanMergeQualifier() is called by
DispatchMergingRegionHandler.
If clean was successful, you would see the following:
LOG.debug("Deleting region " + regionA.getRegionNameAsString() + "
and "
+ regionB.getRegionNameAsString()
+ " from fs because merged region no longer holds references");
Assuming there was no log below in your master log:
LOG.error("Merged region " + region.getRegionNameAsString()
+ " has only one merge qualifier in META.");
It would be the case that 7373f75181c71eb5061a6673cee15931 still had
reference file.
Cheers
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 8:35 AM, Shahab Yunus <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi Ted.
>
> The log bit is below at the end of the email. This is the command to merge
> that I gave just now through hbase shell. forcible was false but it behaves
> similarly if forcible is true too. This is from master log. Indeed the
> region merging was skipped! What does this mean? Data seems to be intact
> for this table.
>
> Just to give you a background. This table was first merge by the auto mated
> java application. What we are doing is that we are merging tables
> programmatically. As the HBaseAdmin.mergeRegions calls i async, we poll for
> the number of regions getting lowered after this merge call. The
> application hangs and continues polling for ever as the previous merge
> didn't happen.
>
> In this poll loop, we do get the number of regions by a fresh call to
> HBaseAdmin.getTableRegions(tableName).getSize().
>
> What are these merge qualifiers and what are we doing wrong or should do?
>
> In the polling loop we can somehow retry merge again? But how can we know,
> that we need to call merge again as it works for some regions. Is the table
> meta corrupted for some reason by the above logic?
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 2014-11-14 11:25:02,643 INFO org.apache.zookeeper.ZooKeeper: Session:
> 0x348c7017707236b closed
> 2014-11-14 11:25:02,643 INFO org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxn: EventThread
> shut down
> 2014-11-14 11:25:02,645 INFO org.apache.zookeeper.ZooKeeper: Initiating
> client connection,
>
> connectString=ip-1010019.ec2.internal:2181,ip-1010017.ec2.internal:2181,ip-1010018.ec2.internal:2181
> sessionTimeout=60000 watcher=catalogtracker-on-hconnection-0x47d865f2,
>
> quorum=ip-1010019.ec2.internal:2181,ip-1010017.ec2.internal:2181,ip-1010018.ec2.internal:2181,
> baseZNode=/hbase
> 2014-11-14 11:25:02,645 INFO
> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.zookeeper.RecoverableZooKeeper: Process
> identifier=catalogtracker-on-hconnection-0x47d865f2 connecting to ZooKeeper
>
> ensemble=ip-1010019.ec2.internal:2181,ip-1010017.ec2.internal:2181,ip-1010018.ec2.internal:2181
> 2014-11-14 11:25:02,645 INFO org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxn: Opening
> socket connection to server ip-1010018.ec2.internal/1010019:2181. Will not
> attempt to authenticate using SASL (unknown error)
> 2014-11-14 11:25:02,646 INFO org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxn: Socket
> connection established to ip-1010018.ec2.internal/1010019:2181, initiating
> session
> 2014-11-14 11:25:02,648 INFO org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxn: Session
> establishment complete on server ip-1010018.ec2.internal/1010019:2181,
> sessionid = 0x348c7017707236c, negotiated timeout = 60000
> 2014-11-14 11:25:02,703 INFO org.apache.zookeeper.ZooKeeper: Session:
> 0x348c7017707236c closed
> 2014-11-14 11:25:02,703 INFO org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxn: EventThread
> shut down
> 2014-11-14 11:25:30,713 INFO
> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.handler.DispatchMergingRegionHandler: Skip
> merging regions
> TABLE_NAME,,1415915112497.7373f75181c71eb5061a6673cee15931.,
>
> TABLE_NAME,\x02\xFA\xF0\x80\x00\x00\x01I\xAA\xD5\x87\xA8\x19\x99\x99\x99\x99\x99\x99\x90,1415910559217.43f4d3685d113d3ae18eea9f189de096.,
> because region 7373f75181c71eb5061a6673cee15931 has merge qualifier
> 2014-11-14 11:25:41,383 INFO org.apache.zookeeper.ZooKeeper: Initiating
> client connection,
>
> connectString=ip-1010019.ec2.internal:2181,ip-1010017.ec2.internal:2181,ip-1010018.ec2.internal:2181
> sessionTimeout=60000 watcher=catalogtracker-on-hconnection-0x47d865f2,
>
> quorum=ip-1010019.ec2.internal:2181,ip-1010017.ec2.internal:2181,ip-1010018.ec2.internal:2181,
> baseZNode=/hbase
> 2014-11-14 11:25:41,384 INFO
> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.zookeeper.RecoverableZooKeeper: Process
> identifier=catalogtracker-on-hconnection-0x47d865f2 connecting to ZooKeeper
>
> ensemble=ip-1010019.ec2.internal:2181,ip-1010017.ec2.internal:2181,ip-1010018.ec2.internal:2181
> 2014-11-14 11:25:41,384 INFO org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxn: Opening
> socket connection to server ip-1010018.ec2.internal/1010019:2181. Will not
> attempt to authenticate using SASL (unknown error)
> 2014-11-14 11:25:41,386 INFO org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxn: Socket
> connection established to ip-1010018.ec2.internal/1010019:2181, initiating
> session
> 2014-11-14 11:25:41,389 INFO org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxn: Session
> establishment complete on server ip-1010018.ec2.internal/1010019:2181,
> sessionid = 0x348c7017707236e, negotiated timeout = 60000
> 2014-11-14 11:25:41,397 INFO org.apache.zookeeper.ZooKeeper: Session:
> 0x348c7017707236e closed
> 2014-11-14 11:25:41,398 INFO org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxn: EventThread
> shut down
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Regards,
> Shahab
>
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 10:56 AM, Ted Yu <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Looking at DispatchMergingRegionHandler, it does some check before
> > initiating the merge.
> > e.g.:
> >
> > LOG.info("Skip merging regions " + region_a.getRegionNameAsString()
> >
> > + ", " + region_b.getRegionNameAsString() + ", because region "
> >
> > + (regionAHasMergeQualifier ? region_a.getEncodedName() :
> > region_b
> >
> > .getEncodedName()) + " has merge qualifier");
> >
> > Can you take a look at master log around the time merge request was
> issued
> > to see if you can get some clue ?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 6:41 AM, Shahab Yunus <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > The documentation of online merge tool (merge_region) states that if we
> > > forcibly merge regions (by setting the 3rd attribute as true) then it
> can
> > > create overlapping regions. if this happens then will this render the
> > > region or table unusable or it is just a performance hit? I mean how
> > bigger
> > > of a deal it is?
> > >
> > > Actually, we are merging regions using the programmatic API for this
> and
> > > setting this flag ('forcible') as false. But for some tables (we
> haven't
> > > figured out a pattern yet, data is still accessible), merge of regions
> do
> > > not happen at all. Afterwards we tried with this flag = true, and it
> > still
> > > doesn't merge them.
> > >
> > > CDH 5.1.0
> > > (Hbase is 0.98.1-cdh5.1.0)
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Shahab
> > >
> >
>
