hadoop 2.4.1 Balancing is very slow. $HADOOP_PREFIX/bin/hdfs dfsadmin -setBalancerBandwidth 52428800 It takes long time to move the one block. 2014. 09. 11. 11:38:01 Block begins to move 2014-09-11 11:47:20 Complete block move #10.2.1.211 netstat, Block begins to move, 10.2.1.210 -->>> 10.2.1.211 2014. 09. 11. 11:38:01 tcp 1110650 0 10.2.1.211:56819 10.2.1.210:40010 ESTABLISHED - # datanode log, 10.2.1.211 2014-09-11 11:47:09,819 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataNode: Copied BP-1770955034-0.0.0.0-1401163460236:blk_1077753386_4013196 to /10.2.1.211:56819 # namenode balancer log 2014-09-11 11:47:20,782 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.balancer.Balancer: Successfully moved blk_1077753386_4013196 with size=134217728 from 10.2.1.204:40010 to 10.2.1.211:40010 through 10.2.1.210:40010
# check network state, File transfer speed using scp, 76.7MB/sdummy.tar 100% 230MB 76.7MB/s 00:03