Hi, all My cluster is cdh5.2.0 with hbase 0.98.6, and recently some region server load is very high, about 50, and the CPU usage is about 2400%(with 24 core).
I check the log in region server, and found frequent memstore flush and compactions, is this the reason for the high load? {log} 2015-05-19 08:40:21,749 INFO [MemStoreFlusher.0] regionserver.HRegion: Started memstore flush for ttsi_order:ttsi_order_process,fceaa9d2804f005B,1431599229048.378c4f2ebc93770ef6cbf956de60d093., current region memstore size 1.1 M 2015-05-19 08:40:21,917 INFO [MemStoreFlusher.0] regionserver.DefaultStoreFlusher: Flushed, sequenceid=11905428, memsize=1.1 M, hasBloomFilter=true, into tmp file hdfs://mycluster:8020/hbase/airfare/data/ttsi_order/ttsi_order_process/378c4f2ebc93770ef6cbf956de60d093/.tmp/6fab6457782048898b1547c422fc0c82 2015-05-19 08:40:21,934 DEBUG [MemStoreFlusher.0] regionserver.HRegionFileSystem: Committing store file hdfs://mycluster:8020/hbase/airfare/data/ttsi_order/ttsi_order_process/378c4f2ebc93770ef6cbf956de60d093/.tmp/6fab6457782048898b1547c422fc0c82 as hdfs://mycluster:8020/hbase/airfare/data/ttsi_order/ttsi_order_process/378c4f2ebc93770ef6cbf956de60d093/orderinfo/6fab6457782048898b1547c422fc0c82 2015-05-19 08:40:21,941 INFO [MemStoreFlusher.0] regionserver.HStore: Added hdfs://mycluster:8020/hbase/airfare/data/ttsi_order/ttsi_order_process/378c4f2ebc93770ef6cbf956de60d093/orderinfo/6fab6457782048898b1547c422fc0c82, entries=1441, sequenceid=11905428, filesize=847.8 K 2015-05-19 08:40:21,941 INFO [MemStoreFlusher.0] regionserver.HRegion: Finished memstore flush of ~1.1 M/1126904, currentsize=0/0 for region ttsi_order:ttsi_order_process,fceaa9d2804f005B,1431599229048.378c4f2ebc93770ef6cbf956de60d093. in 192ms, sequenceid=11905428, compaction requested=true 2015-05-19 08:40:21,941 DEBUG [MemStoreFlusher.0] regionserver.CompactSplitThread: Small Compaction requested: system; Because: MemStoreFlusher.0; compaction_queue=(0:0), split_queue=0, merge_queue=0 2015-05-19 08:40:21,941 DEBUG [regionserver60020-smallCompactions-1431261234450] compactions.RatioBasedCompactionPolicy: Selecting compaction from 4 store files, 0 compacting, 4 eligible, 30 blocking 2015-05-19 08:40:21,941 DEBUG [regionserver60020-smallCompactions-1431261234450] compactions.ExploringCompactionPolicy: Exploring compaction algorithm has selected 3 files of size 36749798 starting at candidate #1 after considering 3 permutations with 1 in ratio 2015-05-19 08:40:21,941 DEBUG [regionserver60020-smallCompactions-1431261234450] regionserver.HStore: 378c4f2ebc93770ef6cbf956de60d093 - orderinfo: Initiating minor compaction 2015-05-19 08:40:21,941 INFO [regionserver60020-smallCompactions-1431261234450] regionserver.HRegion: Starting compaction on orderinfo in region ttsi_order:ttsi_order_process,fceaa9d2804f005B,1431599229048.378c4f2ebc93770ef6cbf956de60d093. 2015-05-19 08:40:21,942 INFO [regionserver60020-smallCompactions-1431261234450] regionserver.HStore: Starting compaction of 3 file(s) in orderinfo of ttsi_order:ttsi_order_process,fceaa9d2804f005B,1431599229048.378c4f2ebc93770ef6cbf956de60d093. into tmpdir=hdfs://mycluster:8020/hbase/airfare/data/ttsi_order/ttsi_order_process/378c4f2ebc93770ef6cbf956de60d093/.tmp, totalSize=35.0 M 2015-05-19 08:40:21,942 DEBUG [regionserver60020-smallCompactions-1431261234450] compactions.Compactor: Compacting hdfs://mycluster:8020/hbase/airfare/data/ttsi_order/ttsi_order_process/378c4f2ebc93770ef6cbf956de60d093/orderinfo/a89297d7bbc34db7aa9f23e42789e2bd, keycount=22628, bloomtype=ROW, size=33.8 M, encoding=NONE, seqNum=11902843 2015-05-19 08:40:21,942 DEBUG [regionserver60020-smallCompactions-1431261234450] compactions.Compactor: Compacting hdfs://mycluster:8020/hbase/airfare/data/ttsi_order/ttsi_order_process/378c4f2ebc93770ef6cbf956de60d093/orderinfo/d1f8531b00fa4f77ad901001ebe39644, keycount=512, bloomtype=ROW, size=468.8 K, encoding=NONE, seqNum=11903863 2015-05-19 08:40:21,942 DEBUG [regionserver60020-smallCompactions-1431261234450] compactions.Compactor: Compacting hdfs://mycluster:8020/hbase/airfare/data/ttsi_order/ttsi_order_process/378c4f2ebc93770ef6cbf956de60d093/orderinfo/6fab6457782048898b1547c422fc0c82, keycount=597, bloomtype=ROW, size=847.8 K, encoding=NONE, seqNum=11905428 {/log} Why the flush so small memstore which just 1.1 M, and many other flush even small than 1M。 My configuration: RegionServer: MaxHeap: 64G hbase.hregion.memstore.flush.size = 128M hbase.regionserver.global.memstore.upperLimit=0.4 hbase.regionserver.global.memstore.lowerLimit=0.38 hbase.hregion.memstore.block.multiplier=4 hbase.hregion.memstore.mslab.enabled=true hbase.hregion.max.filesize = 10G hbase.hstore.compaction.max=10 hbase.hstore.compactionThreshold=3 hbase.hstore.compaction.kv.max=10 And the region server has 223 regions.