Did you set the split policy to CostantSizeRegionSplitPolicy?
> On Mar 22, 2018, at 2:56 PM, Adi Kadimetla <kadime...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Group, > TABLE - with 50 salt buckets and configured as time series table. > > Having pre split into 50 SALT buckets we disabled the region splits using max > file size as 100 GB for the split. > > I see some of the keys got split and created stale regions. > > no writes are happening into the region f3f0a711370c8acb88f5294ec9dfa648 > > region - f3f0a711370c8acb88f5294ec9dfa648 > start key - .\x00x\00 ... ( all x\00 ) > end key - > .\x80\x00\x01`\x02<8\x07\x00\x00\x00\x00\x81\x80\x00\x01`\x02<\x14`\x00\x00\x00\x005VPK06CewQV2nI_1qS6baA\x00oAPASXODoBkIBIYJT3BPrQ > > > All the writes are going to this region 7feabc1eea26727c03366efba27f2016. > > region - 7feabc1eea26727c03366efba27f2016 > start key - > .\x80\x00\x01`\x02<8\x07\x00\x00\x00\x00\x81\x80\x00\x01`\x02<\x14`\x00\x00\x00\x005VPK06CewQV2nI_1qS6baA\x00oAPASXODoBkIBIYJT3BPrQ > > end key - /\x00\x00 ... ( all x\00 ) > > > salt bucket byte - hash(row key) % N salt buckets > > > I was expecting only salt bucket bytes for the start and end keys. Instead I > see row keys have been appended to the salt bucket byte and those regions are > not used. > > Any pointer what caused the split and how to prevent. > > Command to remove stale region and restore as contiguous start and end keys. > > region - 7feabc1eea26727c03366efba27f2016 > > start key - .\x00\x00 .. ( all x\00 ) > > end key - /\x00\x00 ... ( all x\00 ) > > > HDP - 2.6.3 > HBase 1.1.2 > Phoenix 4.7.0 > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > > >
