Re: Normalizer in 1.2+?

2016-01-13 Thread Lars George
Hi Ted, Wait a minute... this means it is always on by default. Is this wanted? This is a new feature and should be tested in the field first? But you agree this is not right, so I will create a JIRA to track this. Cheers, Lars On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 11:13 AM, Ted Yu wrote: > There is Region

Re: Normalizer in 1.2+?

2016-01-13 Thread Ted Yu
There is RegionNormalizerTracker which tracks region normalizer state up in ZK. When user toggles normalizer switch through shell, the following method in MasterRpcServices is called: public boolean normalizerSwitch(boolean on) { boolean oldValue = master.getRegionNormalizerTracker().isNor

Normalizer in 1.2+?

2016-01-13 Thread Lars George
Hi, Just looking through the new properties and seeing this hbase.normalizer.enabled false If set to true, Master will try to keep region size within each table approximately the same. Searching both branches 1.2 and master reveals it is only used in a test to enable it,