How do you trigger major compaction manually ? Cheers
> On Jan 25, 2015, at 3:40 PM, Pun Intended <punintende...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thank you so much for your help! > You are right, the slow region server hosts hbase:meta!!! I am using Hbase > 0.96.1.1 > > I have major compactions disabled. I run major compaction manually once a > day and when it dpes that besides requesting major compaction on my tables, > it also requests a major_compact 'hbase:meta'. Is that what could be > causing the issue? I did a scan on 'hbase:meta' and I see that it contains > about the same number of regions as it should - I have two tables with > ~3000 regions each. > > Do you think I have some misconfiguration? Do I need to do some cleanup on > the meta region? Am I hitting some Hbase bug? Or am I being dumb requesting > major compaction for the meta region daily? > > I believe on the client side I am doing things right - using scanner > caching, etc. > > Thank you so much for your help!!