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Eric Newton commented on ACCUMULO-2998:
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I jumped on this improvement because:
* lately many users have complained about slow balancing (ACCUMULO-2952)
* many users take advantage pre-splitting with a date-based index (that is,
they create daily or monthly split points)
* the balancing was particularly slow with large, mostly balanced clusters
(>100 nodes)
* waiting on basic balancing was not very hard to implement
* alternative mechanisms require polling the metadata table, and the master is
already doing that
We could improve the balance API to support {{isBalanced(String tableId)}}, but
I don't think it's worth it.
Please consider this improvement as still-under-review. Reopen if you believe
changes should be made.
> provide a mechanism to allow clients to wait for balance
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> Key: ACCUMULO-2998
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-2998
> Project: Accumulo
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: client, master
> Reporter: Eric Newton
> Assignee: Eric Newton
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 1.7.0
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> Time Spent: 10m
> Remaining Estimate: 0h
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> It would be nice to wait for the balancer to run and find no work to do after
> creating a bunch of splits.
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