For my scans I have caching disabled. There must be something else producing significant amounts of garbage.
----- Original Message ----- From: Dhruba Borthakur <dhr...@gmail.com> To: dev@hbase.apache.org Cc: lars hofhansl <lhofha...@yahoo.com> Sent: Thursday, December 1, 2011 3:19 PM Subject: Re: Size of KeyValue Most of our "garbage" is from block cache, not directly from the KVs. Is that what you see? thanks, dhruba On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Stack <st...@duboce.net> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:57 AM, lars hofhansl <lhofha...@yahoo.com> > wrote: > > To try this out I changed the server side code to keep track of the > latest KV rather than the row, and also remove the caching from KV. > > The difference for GC and runtime is within the noise. I have to > conclude that allocating KVs is just not a big problem compared to other > garbage being > > produced during scans. > > > > > > Ain't all our garbage KVs? (Though I suppose sometimes its blocks of > KVs whether mslab or blocks from hdfs). > St.Ack > -- Subscribe to my posts at http://www.facebook.com/dhruba
