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Enis Soztutar commented on HBASE-10873:
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bq. Should we set the default value to 1 (backup master is treated the same as
a normal region server) or a big number (less regions)? If big, how big should
be proper?
I was thinking of setting the value to 0, which gives us the 0.98- behavior of
backup masters not hosting any regions. If users want to use extra capacity
they can enable this setting manually.
> Control number of regions assigned to backup masters
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>
> Key: HBASE-10873
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-10873
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Balancer
> Reporter: Jimmy Xiang
> Assignee: Jimmy Xiang
> Fix For: 0.99.0
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> Attachments: hbase-10873.patch, hbase-10873_v2.patch
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> By default, a backup master is treated just like another regionserver. So it
> can host as many regions as other regionserver does. When the backup master
> becomes the active one, region balancer needs to move those user regions on
> this master to other region servers. To minimize the impact, it's better not
> to assign too many regions on backup masters. It may not be good to leave the
> backup masters idle and not host any region either.
> We should make this adjustable so that users can control how many regions to
> assign to each backup master.
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