Re: Timeouts when running balancer

2008-07-21 Thread David J. O'Dell
You are correct. The default 1mb/sec is too low. 1gb/sec is too high. I changed it to 10mb/sec and its humming along. Thanks. Taeho Kang wrote: > By setting "dfs.balance.bandwidthPerSec" to 1GB/sec, each datanode is able > to utilize up to 1GB/sec for block balancing. It seems to be too high as >

Re: Timeouts when running balancer

2008-07-20 Thread Taeho Kang
By setting "dfs.balance.bandwidthPerSec" to 1GB/sec, each datanode is able to utilize up to 1GB/sec for block balancing. It seems to be too high as even a gigabit ethernet can't handle that much data per sec. When you get timeouts, it probably means your network is saturated. Maybe you were runnin

Timeouts when running balancer

2008-07-18 Thread David J. O'Dell
I'm trying to re balance my cluster as I've added to more nodes. When I run balancer with the default threshold I am seeing timeouts in the logs: 2008-07-18 09:50:46,636 INFO org.apache.hadoop.dfs.Balancer: Decided to move block -8432927406854991437 with a length of 128 MB bytes from 10.11.6.234:5