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stack commented on HBASE-6060:
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First, thanks for working on this awkward issue. Its a good find and needs to
be fixed.
Thanks too for removing NO_SERVERS_TO_ASSIGN.
I'm trying to get clear on why we need the REGION_PLAN_INUSE at all. The idea
is that the call to getRegionPlan needs to return something which says "do not
assign this region just yet" and somehow, returning null is not enough because
that means something else? It means that there are no servers available to
assign the region too? Why can we not broaden what null means so it means no
servers or don't assign just yet?
FYI, this will confuse: '+ if (this == REGION_PLAN_ALREADY_INUSE) return
"";' Should probably print out something here. Null string will make people
think the toSTring doesn't work.
> Regions's in OPENING state from failed regionservers takes a long time to
> recover
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>
> Key: HBASE-6060
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-6060
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: master, regionserver
> Reporter: Enis Soztutar
> Assignee: Enis Soztutar
> Fix For: 0.96.0, 0.94.1, 0.92.3
>
> Attachments: 6060-94-v3.patch, 6060-94-v4.patch, 6060-94-v4_1.patch,
> 6060-94-v4_1.patch, 6060-trunk.patch, 6060-trunk.patch, 6060-trunk_2.patch,
> 6060-trunk_3.patch, HBASE-6060-92.patch, HBASE-6060-94.patch
>
>
> we have seen a pattern in tests, that the regions are stuck in OPENING state
> for a very long time when the region server who is opening the region fails.
> My understanding of the process:
>
> - master calls rs to open the region. If rs is offline, a new plan is
> generated (a new rs is chosen). RegionState is set to PENDING_OPEN (only in
> master memory, zk still shows OFFLINE). See HRegionServer.openRegion(),
> HMaster.assign()
> - RegionServer, starts opening a region, changes the state in znode. But
> that znode is not ephemeral. (see ZkAssign)
> - Rs transitions zk node from OFFLINE to OPENING. See
> OpenRegionHandler.process()
> - rs then opens the region, and changes znode from OPENING to OPENED
> - when rs is killed between OPENING and OPENED states, then zk shows OPENING
> state, and the master just waits for rs to change the region state, but since
> rs is down, that wont happen.
> - There is a AssignmentManager.TimeoutMonitor, which does exactly guard
> against these kind of conditions. It periodically checks (every 10 sec by
> default) the regions in transition to see whether they timedout
> (hbase.master.assignment.timeoutmonitor.timeout). Default timeout is 30 min,
> which explains what you and I are seeing.
> - ServerShutdownHandler in Master does not reassign regions in OPENING
> state, although it handles other states.
> Lowering that threshold from the configuration is one option, but still I
> think we can do better.
> Will investigate more.
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