How is the table organized? What percent of the table are you scanning in these large operations?
Have you considered writing a custom load balancer? I don't think that a tablet can be hosted on multiple servers. But you might be able to play around with the index/data caches, readahead threads (concurrent queries), and max open files to achieve better performance. From: Slater, David M. [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 7:09 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Straggler problem in Accumulo BatchScans Hey, I have a 7 node network running accumulo 1.4.1 and hadoop 1.0.4. When I run large BatchScanner operations, the number of tablets scanned per node is not uniform, leading to the overloaded nodes taking much longer to finish than the others. For queries that require all of the scans to finish before returning, this is a major latency issue. What are some practical means of load-balancing this to reduce delay? Is it possible for tablets to be hosted on multiple tablet servers, up to the replication factor of the underlying hdfs? Are there reasons this might be an undesirable design? Thanks in advance, David
