Create an ntp server local to the cluster? This will eliminate the skew in the first place.
Sent from a remote device. Please excuse any typos... Mike Segel On Mar 15, 2013, at 3:53 PM, Ted Yu <yuzhih...@gmail.com> wrote: > Are you using 0.94.x ? > > If so, see the following: > > maxSkew = c.getLong("hbase.master.maxclockskew", 30000); > warningSkew = c.getLong("hbase.master.warningclockskew", 10000); > ./src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/ServerManager.java > > Cheers > > On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 3:49 PM, <yulin...@dell.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> We recently encountered the issue that HBase tables got into a state that >> was not disabled nor enabled. We found that the root cause was the linux >> clock skewed more than 5 hours. I googled and understood that hbase can >> only handle about a couple of seconds time skew. We were wondering if >> there's any configuration in HBase that we can do so as to increase the >> number of seconds that hbase could handle? >> >> Thanks very much, >> >> YuLing >>