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Todd Lipcon commented on HBASE-9467:
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Rather than blocking writes to a region which is above its memstore limit, why
not reject them with a "RegionOverloadedException" or somesuch? This way it
wouldn't occupy threads needlessly, and avoid long queueing delays. The client
could then perform some exponential backoff.
In the future, we could avoid the "polling retry" containing heavy batches of
puts by changing the client to retry with a simple probe RPC until the region
indicates that it's unblocked.
> write can be totally blocked temporarily by a write-heavy region
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> Key: HBASE-9467
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-9467
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Feng Honghua
> Priority: Minor
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> Write to a region can be blocked temporarily if the memstore of that region
> reaches the threshold(hbase.hregion.memstore.block.multiplier *
> hbase.hregion.flush.size) until the memstore of that region is flushed.
> For a write-heavy region, if its write requests saturates all the handler
> threads of that RS when write blocking for that region occurs, requests of
> other regions/tables to that RS also can't be served due to no available
> handler threads...until the pending writes of that write-heavy region are
> served after the flush is done. Hence during this time period, from the RS
> perspective it can't serve any request from any table/region just due to a
> single write-heavy region.
> This sounds not very reasonable, right? Maybe write requests from a region
> can only be served by a sub-set of the handler threads, and then write
> blocking of any single region can't lead to the scenario mentioned above?
> Comment?
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