Re: hdfs du periodicity and hdfs not respond at that time

2013-01-24 Thread Chris Embree
What type of FS are you using under HDFS? XFS, ext3, ext4? The type and configuration of the underlying FS will impact performance. Most notably, ext3 has a lock-up effect when flushing disk cache. On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 2:54 AM, Xibin Liu xibin.liu...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks,

Re: hdfs du periodicity and hdfs not respond at that time

2013-01-24 Thread Harsh J
I missed the periodicity part of your question. Unfortunately the du refresh interval is hard-coded today, although the df interval is configurable. Perhaps this is a bug - I filed https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-9241 to make it configurable. Also, your problem reminded me of a

Re: hdfs du periodicity and hdfs not respond at that time

2013-01-24 Thread Xibin Liu
I'm using ext3 and use df instead of du is a good way to solve this problem, thanks you all 2013/1/24 Harsh J ha...@cloudera.com I missed the periodicity part of your question. Unfortunately the du refresh interval is hard-coded today, although the df interval is configurable. Perhaps this is

hdfs du periodicity and hdfs not respond at that time

2013-01-23 Thread Xibin Liu
hi all, I found hdfs du periodicity(one hour), and because my disk is big, the smallest one is 15T, so when hdfs exec du, datanode will not respond for about 3 minuts because of io loading, this cause a lot of problem, anybody knows why hdfs doing this and how to disable it? -- Thanks Regards

Re: hdfs du periodicity and hdfs not respond at that time

2013-01-23 Thread Harsh J
Hi, HDFS does this to estimate space reports. Perhaps the discussion here may help you: http://search-hadoop.com/m/LLBgUiH0Bg2 On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Xibin Liu xibin.liu...@gmail.com wrote: hi all, I found hdfs du periodicity(one hour), and because my disk is big, the smallest one

Re: hdfs du periodicity and hdfs not respond at that time

2013-01-23 Thread Xibin Liu
Thanks, http://search-hadoop.com/m/LLBgUiH0Bg2 is my issue , but I still dont't know how to solve this problem, 3 minutes not respond once an hour is a big problem for me, any clue for this? 2013/1/24 Harsh J ha...@cloudera.com Hi, HDFS does this to estimate space reports. Perhaps the