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Biju Nair commented on HBASE-3268: ---------------------------------- Even though the delay in regions getting assigned to a new RS can cause confusion to a new user, it takes care of outliers like the one mentioned in earlier comment like adding multiple new RSes . Do we still need this feature or can it be closed? > Run balancer when a new node is added > ------------------------------------- > > Key: HBASE-3268 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-3268 > Project: HBase > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Balancer, master > Reporter: Todd Lipcon > Priority: Major > > Right now we only balance the cluster once every 5 minutes by default. This > is likely to confuse new users. When you start a new region server, you > expect it to pick up some load very quickly, but right now you have to wait 5 > minutes for it to start doing anything in the worst case. > We could/should also add a button/shell command to "trigger balance now" -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)