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Keith Turner commented on ACCUMULO-1454:
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I thought of another possible solution. Instead of killing the tserver process
and restarting, start another tserver instance on the same node while the old
tserver instance is still running. Then migrate tablets between the old and
new tserver instance on the same node. After everything is migrated, kill the
old tserver instance on the node.
I really like this approach, but it has one small problem. There is a
potential for memory exhaustion (from using 2x memory for buffering of read and
write data). To circumvent this, could possibly make decommissioned tserver
flush its read cache, flush recently written memory, and hold new writes. This
approach my delay writes a bit, but seems like it would be good for reads.
> Need good way to perform a rolling restart of all tablet servers
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> Key: ACCUMULO-1454
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-1454
> Project: Accumulo
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: tserver
> Affects Versions: 1.4.3, 1.5.0
> Reporter: Mike Drob
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> When needing to change a tserver parameter (e.g. java heap space) across the
> entire cluster, there is not a graceful way to perform a rolling restart.
> The naive approach of just killing tservers one at a time causes a lot of
> churn on the cluster as tablets move around and zookeeper tries to maintain
> current state.
> Potential solutions might be via a fancy fate operation, with coordination by
> the master. Ideally, the master would know which servers are 'safe' to
> restart and could minimize overall impact during the operation.
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