80 regions over 5 nodes - that's 16 per server. 

How big is average region size ?
Have you considered splitting existing regions ?

Cheers

On Jun 26, 2014, at 12:34 AM, Li Li <fancye...@gmail.com> wrote:

> my table has about 700 million rows and about 80 regions. each task
> tracker is configured with 4 mappers and 4 reducers at the same time.
> The hadoop/hbase cluster has 5 nodes so at the same time, it has 20
> mappers running. it takes more than an hour to finish mapper stage.
> The hbase cluster's load is very low, about 2,000 request per second.
> I think one mapper for a region is too small. How can I run more than
> one mapper for a region so that it can take full advantage of
> computing resources?

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