Look for the compaction queue metrics, see if it fits. Could be major compactions.
J-D On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Jeff Whiting <je...@qualtrics.com> wrote: > We have a hadoop cluster that is only running hbase. We recently installed > ganglia to monitor those servers. Looking over the network graphs about > every 2 hours there is a very large spike. Before the spike we are pushing > about 5mb but during the spikes it is around 60-100mb. I'm pretty sure we > aren't running anything, is hbase doing something that could cause those > spikes? > > Thanks, > ~Jeff > > -- > Jeff Whiting > Qualtrics Senior Software Engineer > je...@qualtrics.com > >