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Max Lapan updated HDFS-4992: ---------------------------- Status: Patch Available (was: Open) Patch against trunk > Make balancer's thread count configurable > ----------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-4992 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-4992 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: balancer > Reporter: Max Lapan > > By default, balancer has 1000 threads which moves blocks around (mover > threads) and 200 threads which decide which block to move (dispatcher > threads). > On large clusters, 1000 threads creates significant load on NN, which slows > down other HDFS activity. For example, on our cluster, 'hdfs dfs -ls /' > command took about 1 minute when balancer is active. When no balancing in > progress, the same command finishes in second or two. > This patch makes amount of threads configurable by two new options > 'dfs.balancer.moverThreads' and 'dfs.balancer.dispatcherThreads'. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira