The actual time isn't an issue. It's that all of the nodes in the cluster have 
the same time...
Give or take a couple of ms.



Sent from a remote device. Please excuse any typos...

Mike Segel

On Mar 18, 2013, at 2:39 PM, <yulin...@dell.com> wrote:

> The problem is that in our case, the customer configures the NTP server and 
> it could be invalid. We're trying to cover user error cases, but on the other 
> hand we're trying to understand how big time skew hbase can handle...
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> YuLing
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin O'dell [mailto:kevin.od...@cloudera.com] 
> Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2013 5:49 AM
> To: user@hbase.apache.org
> Subject: Re: hbase time skew
> 
> I am going to agree with Michael on this one.  Don't change the clock skew, 
> fix it.
> 
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 9:56 PM, Michel Segel <michael_se...@hotmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> 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
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Kevin O'Dell
> Customer Operations Engineer, Cloudera
> 

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