Re: is there anyway to turn off compaction in hbase

2012-08-09 Thread henry.kim
yes, there is a property in hbase-site.xml check the property which is named 'hbase.hregion.majorcompaction' if you set it to value 0, there will be no automatic compactions. 2012. 8. 9., 오후 7:43, Richard Tang 작성: > I am using hbase 0.92.1 and want to disable compaction (both major and > minor

Re: is there anyway to turn off compaction in hbase

2012-08-09 Thread Richard Tang
That is right. I have tried following properties, in conf/hbase-site.xml. It looks it works to disable both major and minor (in some sense) compactions. Note these properties are defined in src/main/resources/hbase-default.xml, but putting the property there without recompiling the src, it will not

Re: is there anyway to turn off compaction in hbase

2012-08-12 Thread Harsh J
Richard, The property disables major compactions from happening automatically. However, if you choose to do this, you should ensure you have a cron job that does trigger major_compact on all tables - for compaction is a necessary thing, but you just do not want it to happen at any time it likes to

Re: is there anyway to turn off compaction in hbase

2012-08-13 Thread yonghu
Harsh is right. You find the wrong place. regards! Yong On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Harsh J wrote: > Richard, > > The property disables major compactions from happening automatically. > However, if you choose to do this, you should ensure you have a cron > job that does trigger major_compa