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Hairong Kuang commented on HADOOP-4116:
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Yes, the default is 2 hours. My argument is that the performance of Balancer is 
not of importance comparing to using too many resources. Anyway the 
administrator can stop the balancer anytime if she sees that the balancer has 
not made any progress for hours.

> Balancer should provide better resource management
> --------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-4116
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4116
>             Project: Hadoop Core
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: dfs
>    Affects Versions: 0.17.0
>            Reporter: Raghu Angadi
>            Assignee: Hairong Kuang
>            Priority: Blocker
>             Fix For: 0.18.2, 0.19.0
>
>         Attachments: balancerRM.patch, balancerRM1.patch
>
>
> The number of threads are currently limited on datanodes. Once these threads 
> are occupied, DataNode does not accept any more requests (DOS). Recently we 
> saw a case where most of the 256 threads were waiting in 
> {{DataXceiver.replaceBlock()}} trying to acquire  {{balancingSem}}.  Since 
> rebalancing  is (heavily) throttled, I would think this would be the common 
> case. 
> These operations waiting  for active rebalancing threads to finish need not 
> take up a thread. 

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