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Colin Patrick McCabe commented on HDFS-8873:
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[~nroberts], I agree that it might be better to keep the old behavior of
finishing one volume in a thread before moving on to the next. It might
increase our cache hit rate. I can think of reasons to do the opposite (i.e.
spread the load across disks), that might motivate us to add that mode as an
option, but it seems better to focus on just throttling in this change.
> throttle directoryScanner
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> Key: HDFS-8873
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-8873
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: datanode
> Affects Versions: 2.7.1
> Reporter: Nathan Roberts
> Assignee: Daniel Templeton
> Attachments: HDFS-8873.001.patch, HDFS-8873.002.patch,
> HDFS-8873.003.patch, HDFS-8873.004.patch
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> The new 2-level directory layout can make directory scans expensive in terms
> of disk seeks (see HDFS-8791) for details.
> It would be good if the directoryScanner() had a configurable duty cycle that
> would reduce its impact on disk performance (much like the approach in
> HDFS-8617).
> Without such a throttle, disks can go 100% busy for many minutes at a time
> (assuming the common case of all inodes in cache but no directory blocks
> cached, 64K seeks are required for full directory listing which translates to
> 655 seconds)
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