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Ted Yu commented on HBASE-17565:
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bq. This only effect when there are a very very big multiplier......

Big multiplier does exist. We need to consider the aggregate effect.

bq. Why we need a so big default multiplier for read replica?

The background is that when any two replicas among primary, secondary and 
tertiary replicas are on the same server, we lose benefit of read replica when 
this server goes down. See the javadoc for RegionReplicaHostCostFunction :
{code}
   * A cost function for region replicas. We give a very high cost to hosting
   * replicas of the same region in the same host. We do not prevent the case
   * though, since if numReplicas > numRegionServers, we still want to keep the
   * replica open.
{code}

> StochasticLoadBalancer may incorrectly skip balancing due to skewed 
> multiplier sum
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HBASE-17565
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-17565
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Ted Yu
>            Assignee: Ted Yu
>            Priority: Critical
>             Fix For: 2.0.0, 1.4.0
>
>         Attachments: 17565.v1.txt, 17565.v2.txt, 17565.v3.txt
>
>
> I was investigating why a 6 node cluster kept skipping balancing requests.
> Here were the region counts on the servers:
> 449, 448, 447, 449, 453, 0
> {code}
> 2017-01-26 22:04:47,145 INFO  
> [RpcServer.deafult.FPBQ.Fifo.handler=1,queue=0,port=16000] 
> balancer.StochasticLoadBalancer: Skipping load balancing because balanced 
> cluster; total cost is 127.0171157050385, sum multiplier is 111087.0 min cost 
> which need balance is 0.05
> {code}
> The big multiplier sum caught my eyes. Here was what additional debug logging 
> showed:
> {code}
> 2017-01-27 23:25:31,749 DEBUG 
> [RpcServer.deafult.FPBQ.Fifo.handler=9,queue=0,port=16000] 
> balancer.StochasticLoadBalancer: class 
> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.balancer.          
> StochasticLoadBalancer$RegionReplicaHostCostFunction with multiplier 100000.0
> 2017-01-27 23:25:31,749 DEBUG 
> [RpcServer.deafult.FPBQ.Fifo.handler=9,queue=0,port=16000] 
> balancer.StochasticLoadBalancer: class 
> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.balancer.          
> StochasticLoadBalancer$RegionReplicaRackCostFunction with multiplier 10000.0
> {code}
> Note however, that no table in the cluster used read replica.
> I can think of two ways of fixing this situation:
> 1. If there is no read replica in the cluster, ignore the multipliers for the 
> above two functions.
> 2. When cost() returned by the CostFunction is 0 (or very very close to 0.0), 
> ignore the multiplier.



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