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ramkrishna.s.vasudevan commented on HBASE-6060:
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Pls review the latest patch in the RB and provide your comments.
> 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: rajeshbabu
> Fix For: 0.96.0, 0.92.3, 0.94.2
>
> Attachments: 6060-94-v3.patch, 6060-94-v4_1.patch,
> 6060-94-v4_1.patch, 6060-94-v4.patch, 6060_alternative_suggestion.txt,
> 6060_suggestion2_based_off_v3.patch, 6060_suggestion_based_off_v3.patch,
> 6060_suggestion_toassign_rs_wentdown_beforerequest.patch, 6060-trunk_2.patch,
> 6060-trunk_3.patch, 6060-trunk.patch, 6060-trunk.patch, HBASE-6060-92.patch,
> HBASE-6060-94.patch, HBASE-6060_latest.patch, HBASE-6060_latest.patch,
> HBASE-6060_latest.patch, HBASE-6060-trunk_4.patch, HBASE-6060_trunk_5.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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