Also, you probably do not want to set your blocksize to 512mb. The default is 64k. HBase has to load (either HDFS or cache) and scan this amount of data for each key value lookup.
-- Lars ________________________________ From: Stack <st...@duboce.net> To: user@hbase.apache.org Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 1:16 PM Subject: Re: Regions in Transition? On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Mark <static.void....@gmail.com> wrote: > I recently bumped up the region size memory configuration on our HBase > cluster and after doing a rolling restart of our 5 nodes I saw the > following in the HBase status page: > > > Regions in Transition > > Region State > 32cb0e36cfa326d0a431734ba93a16**df items,869239091/es-LA,**1323971864141.* > *32cb0e36cfa326d0a431734ba93a16**df. state=PENDING_OPEN, ts=Fri Jan 20 > 10:30:56 PST 2012 (422s ago), server=hadoop3.mycompany.com,** > 60020,1327082744696 > 3f70e7e8734ca7b772e2a4db8e3d27**3f items,287955002/fr-FR,**1324492747210.* > *3f70e7e8734ca7b772e2a4db8e3d27**3f. state=PENDING_OPEN, ts=Fri Jan 20 > 10:08:07 PST 2012 (1791s ago), server=hadoop4.mycompany.com,** > 60020,1327082844453 > 4851ec840abe39e3d70d834866fc62**e1 item_translations,589372741/** > es-LA,1323511796967.**4851ec840abe39e3d70d834866fc62**e1. > state=PENDING_OPEN, ts=Fri Jan 20 10:08:07 PST 2012 (1791s ago), server= > hadoop4.mycompany.com,**60020,1327082844453 > 8966449d7bb08dcd060ff4bf9fd12d**36 item_translations,450498891/** > es-LA,1324512750098.**8966449d7bb08dcd060ff4bf9fd12d**36. > state=PENDING_OPEN, ts=Fri Jan 20 10:08:07 PST 2012 (1791s ago), server= > hadoop4.mycompany.com,**60020,1327082844453 > > > What does this mean I why are they taking so long to transition? FYI I am > using Cloudera CDH3U2 and my block size is configured to 512m. > > Region is stuck. Master assigned it to a node but its not opening. Can you see in master logs where this region was assigned. Then go to that regionservers's ui and see if you see the region? St.Ack
