On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 2:07 PM, Saad Mufti <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I found this blog post from 2014 on sources of HBase client side latency > which I found useful: > > > https://hadoop-hbase.blogspot.com/2014/08/hbase-client-response-times.html?showComment=1461099797978#c5266762058464276023 > > It is written by an authority. > Since this is a bit dated, anyone have any other sources of latency to add? > In our experience with HBase 1.x so far we've definitely seen long > latencies when a region server dies, but we've also seen it during > auto-splits which this post suggests shouldn't be that long. > > Easy enough to check. Look at the master log and see the steps involved. > Then we have other unexplained (so far, at least by us) big response time > spikes and client side timeouts that can last a few minutes or in some > cases a couple of hours that we'd like to explain. Could these be from > either automatic major compaction or minor compactions that got upgraded to > major? > > These may up latency when running but not for minutes or hours. Sounds like something else is going on. > Any advice on where to start looking to investigate? > > Check master log at the time of slowness and then follow your nose. If you need more specifics on how to debug, come back here w/ some more detail around a particular event. Yours, St.Ack > Thanks. > > ---- > Saad >
