Hi Rahul , you may set hbase.server.thread.wakefrequency.multiplier to a small number, default 1000. So the CompactionChecker will run more often.
2014-04-04 11:42 GMT+08:00 Rahul Ravindran <rahu...@yahoo.com>: > Hi, > We are currently on 0.94.2(CDH 4.2.1) and would likely upgrade to > 0.94.15 (CDH 4.6) primarily to use the above fix. We have turned off > automatic major compactions. We load data into an hbase table every 2 > minutes. Currently, we are not using bulk load since it created compaction > issues. We noticed HBASE-8283 and could move to use this. Any gotchas on > using this in production? Since, we could create a new HFile every 2 > minutes, we would soon have a scenario where we would have a lot of hfiles. > Would triggering a non major-compaction (using > https://hbase.apache.org/0.94/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/HBaseAdmin.html#compact(byte[])) > periodically be a reasonable compromise along with enabling Hbase-8283 > > > Thanks, > ~Rahul. -- *Best Regards,* lijin bin