David Manning created HBASE-28257:
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             Summary: Memstore flushRequest can be blocked by a delayed flush 
scheduled by PeriodicMemstoreFlusher, RegionTooBusyExceptions for up to 5 
minutes
                 Key: HBASE-28257
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28257
             Project: HBase
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: regionserver
    Affects Versions: 2.0.0, 3.0.0
            Reporter: David Manning
            Assignee: David Manning


*Steps to reproduce:*
# Make an edit to a region.
# Wait 1 hour (default value of hbase.regionserver.optionalcacheflushinterval.)
# Make a very large number of edits to the region (i.e. >= 1GB, pressure the 
memstore.)

*Expected:*
Memstore pressure leads to flushes.

*Result:*
The PeriodicMemstoreFlusher has scheduled a refresh with a random delay of 0-5 
minutes (default for 
hbase.regionserver.periodicmemstoreflusher.rangeofdelayseconds.) Memstore 
pressure flushes are blocked by the scheduled delayed flush. Client receives 
0-5 minutes of RegionTooBusyExceptions until the delayed flush executes.

*Logs:*
2023-12-13 06:00:13,573 INFO regionserver.HRegionServer - MemstoreFlusherChore 
requesting flush of <REGION> because <CF> has an old edit so flush to free WALs 
after random delay 166761 ms
2023-12-13 06:00:53,219 DEBUG regionserver.HRegion - Flush requested on <REGION>
2023-12-13 06:01:47,694 WARN regionserver.HRegion - Region is too busy due to 
exceeding memstore size limit. org.apache.hadoop.hbase.RegionTooBusyException: 
Over memstore limit=1.0 G, regionName=<REGION>, server=<SERVER>
    at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.HRegion.checkResources
...
repeats
...
2023-12-13 06:01:52,223 WARN regionserver.HRegion - Region is too busy due to 
exceeding memstore size limit. org.apache.hadoop.hbase.RegionTooBusyException: 
Over memstore limit=1.0 G, regionName=<REGION>, server=<SERVER>
    at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.HRegion.checkResources
...
2023-12-13 06:03:00,340 INFO regionserver.HRegion - Flushing <REGION> 1/1 
column families, dataSize=534.77 MB heapSize=1.00 GB
2023-12-13 06:03:09,634 INFO regionserver.HRegion - Finished flush of dataSize 
~534.77 MB/560744948, heapSize ~1.00 GB/1073816296, currentSize=0 B/0 for 
<REGION> in 9294ms, sequenceid=21310753, compaction requested=false

Note also this is the same cause as discussed in HBASE-16030 conversation 
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-16030?focusedCommentId=15340153&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel#comment-15340153



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