On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 8:25 PM, lars hofhansl <lhofha...@yahoo.com> wrote: > We just ran into this again today, where we forgot to set scanner caching and > observed bad performance. > The default of 1 does not seem to make any sense (except for very specific > case of large/wide rows). > > Any value between 10 and 1000 should be OK, really. Maybe the default should > be 100. > > This would also go some way to avoid the perception that HBase is slow for > folks who are just playing around with it. >
I'd say all our defaults could do w/ an edit but am fine starting w/ this one alone (Or we have the UI come w/ flashing neon saying the configs are super conservative and must be tuned). St.Ack