You can set "hbase.balancer.max.balancing" (unit: milliseconds) which controls the amount of time balancer runs during each balancing period.
Take a look at getBalancerCutoffTime() in HMaster. Cheers On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Gomathivinayagam Muthuvinayagam < sankarm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Currently load balancer prepares region movement plans, and Assignment > manager handles the transition. Is there anyway I can avoid lot of regions > to be moved in one batch? I see lot of regions are in unusable state during > the transition. > > Thanks & Regards, >