bq. the setting is per regionserver (as the name suggests) and not per region right ?
That is correct. Can you give us more information about your cluster size, workload, etc ? Thanks On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 4:30 AM, Viral Bajaria <viral.baja...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > > I have been trying to play around with the regionserver handler count. What > I noticed was, the cluster comes up fine up to a certain point, ~7500 > regionserver handler counts. But above that the system refuses to start up. > They keep on spinning for a certain point. The ROOT region keeps on > bouncing around different states but never stabilizes. > > So the first question, what's the max that folks on the list have gone with > this settings ? If anyone has gone above 10,000 have you done any special > settings ? > > Secondly, the setting is per regionserver (as the name suggests) and not > per region right ? > > Following are my versions: > HBase 0.94.5 > Hadoop 1.0.4 > Ubuntu 12.04 > > Let me know if you need any more information from my side. > > Thanks, > Viral >