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Hari Krishna Dara commented on HBASE-13959:
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The storefiles can be handled in any order, as the splits are independent. A
quickfix is to increase the pool size with a configurable upper limit. I made a
patch and in the process of testing and doing some analysis. I will submit it
soon.
> Region splitting takes too long because it uses a single thread in most
> common cases
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> Key: HBASE-13959
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-13959
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: regionserver
> Affects Versions: 0.98.12
> Reporter: Hari Krishna Dara
> Assignee: Hari Krishna Dara
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> When storefiles need to be split as part of a region split, the current logic
> uses a threadpool with the size set to the size of the number of stores.
> Since most common table setup involves only a single column family, this
> translates to having a single store and so the threadpool is run with a
> single thread. However, in a write heavy workload, there could be several
> tens of storefiles in a store at the time of splitting, and with a threadpool
> size of one, these files end up getting split sequentially.
> With a bit of tracing, I noticed that it takes on an average of 350ms to
> create a single reference file, and splitting each storefile involves
> creating two of these, so with a storefile count of 20, it takes about 14s
> just to get through this phase alone (2 reference files for each storefile),
> pushing the total time the region is offline to 18s or more. For environments
> that are setup to fail fast, this makes the client exhaust all retries and
> fail with NotServingRegionException.
> The fix should increase the concurrency of this operation.
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