What release of hbase are you using ? Can you pastebin region server log with DEBUG logging ?
I guess you have tried issuing manual command. Did it work ? Thanks On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 7:02 AM, mukund murrali <mukundmurra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Any one help us in this :( Are we missing somewhere in the use case? None > of the deleted cells are undergoing major compaction. > > Thanks > > On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 12:04 PM, mukund murrali <mukundmurra...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > We wanted to have deleted data for a week. So we configured > > > > MIN_VERSIONS => 1 > > KEEP_DELETED_CELLS => TTL > > TTL => 1 week. > > > > As per our understanding, after 1 week the deleted data becomes available > > for major compaction and should be purged (correct if wrong). Since we > have > > time series data, we don't have any write operations in those regions > after > > a week . But major compaction never took place for any regions and our > > overall size grew drastically though we have deletes happening. After > > analyzing, we found that major compaction takes place if any one of the 2 > > condition is satisfied. > > > > 1. If the time interval between major compaction is greater than a week > > (default config). > > 2. if the block locality index falls below a threshold. > > > > In our case, since we have min_versions to be 1, the first case condition > > fails. Time to verify is set to Long.Max value, if min versions is not 0. > > > > Second is block locality. To check the block locality index we enabled > > fine logs. And we found the block locality is always 1, and we got logs > > stating "Skipping major compaction......". > > > > So, in this case is manually triggering major compaction the only choice? > > > > Thanks > > >
