Can you provide us more information: Release of HBase you use Configuration change you made prior to restarting By 'compaction is gone', do you mean that locality became poor again ?
Can you pastebin region server log when compaction got stuck ? Thanks Saturday, July 25, 2015, 2:20 AM +0800 from apratim sharma <apratim.sha...@gmail.com>: >I have a hbase table with with a wide row almost 2K columns per row. Each >KV size is approx 2.1KB >I have populated this table with generated hfiles using a MR job. >There are no write or mutate operations performed on this table. > >So Once I am done with major compaction on this table, ideally we should >not require another major or minor compaction if table is not modified. >What I observe is that if I make some configuration change that need to >restart my hbase service, then after restart my compaction on the table is >gone. >And if I start major compaction on the table again, It takes again a long >to compact the table. > >Is this expected behavior? I am curious what causes the major compaction to >take a long time if nothing has changed on the table. > > >I would really appreciate any help. > > >Thanks > >Apratim