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Zhihong Yu edited comment on HBASE-5101 at 12/29/11 2:27 AM: ------------------------------------------------------------- @Jon: Can you describe how the cluster got into this state ? I guess a lot of region servers crashed ? Otherwise there should have been better planning for the region size. was (Author: zhi...@ebaysf.com): @Jon: Can you describe how the cluster got into this state ? I guess a lot of region servers crashed ? Otherwise there should have been better planning for the HFile size limit. > Add a max number of regions per regionserver limit > -------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HBASE-5101 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-5101 > Project: HBase > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: regionserver > Affects Versions: 0.92.0 > Reporter: Jonathan Hsieh > > In a testing environment, a cluster got to a state with more than 1500 > regions per region server, and essentially became stuck and unavailable. We > could add a limit to the number of regions that a region server can serve to > prevent this from happening. This looks like it could be implemented in the > core or as a coprocessor. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira