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Jean-Daniel Cryans commented on HBASE-2506:
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I created this jira a long time ago but it's still very true today. I tried 
doing an Export of a table with very fat rows, I started with 2 maps per 
machine on 17 machines and scanner caching of 100, OOME on half the servers 
(8GB of heap btw). Scanner caching set to 10, still OOME. 1 map per machine, 
still OOME. I even restarted after the second job thinking that clearing the 
memstores would help but it didn't.

They usually die with this:
{code}

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
        at java.util.Arrays.copyOf(Arrays.java:2786)
        at java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream.write(ByteArrayOutputStream.java:94)
        at java.io.DataOutputStream.write(DataOutputStream.java:90)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Result.writeArray(Result.java:478)
        at 
org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io.HbaseObjectWritable.writeObject(HbaseObjectWritable.java:314)
        at 
org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io.HbaseObjectWritable.write(HbaseObjectWritable.java:231)
        at 
org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc.HBaseServer$Handler.run(HBaseServer.java:1049)

{code}

> Too easy to OOME a RS
> ---------------------
>
>                 Key: HBASE-2506
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-2506
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Jean-Daniel Cryans
>            Priority: Blocker
>              Labels: moved_from_0_20_5
>             Fix For: 0.92.0
>
>
> Testing a cluster with 1GB heap, I found that we are letting the region 
> servers kill themselves too easily when scanning using pre-fetching. To 
> reproduce, get 10-20M rows using PE and run a count in the shell using CACHE 
> => 30000 or any other very high number. For good measure, here's the stack 
> trace:
> {code}
> 2010-04-30 13:20:23,241 FATAL 
> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.HRegionServer: OutOfMemoryError, 
> aborting.
> java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
>         at java.util.Arrays.copyOf(Arrays.java:2786)
>         at java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream.write(ByteArrayOutputStream.java:94)
>         at java.io.DataOutputStream.write(DataOutputStream.java:90)
>         at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Result.writeArray(Result.java:478)
>         at 
> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io.HbaseObjectWritable.writeObject(HbaseObjectWritable.java:312)
>         at 
> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io.HbaseObjectWritable.write(HbaseObjectWritable.java:229)
>         at 
> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc.HBaseServer$Handler.run(HBaseServer.java:941)
> 2010-04-30 13:20:23,241 INFO 
> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.HRegionServer: Dump of metrics: 
> request=0.0, regions=29, stores=29, storefiles=44, storefileIndexSize=6, 
> memstoreSize=255,
>  compactionQueueSize=0, usedHeap=926, maxHeap=987, blockCacheSize=1700064, 
> blockCacheFree=205393696, blockCacheCount=0, blockCacheHitRatio=0
> {code}
> I guess the same could happen with largish write buffers. We need something 
> better than OOME.

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