> the docs for the SimpleRegionNormalizer say that empty regions are not merged.
Which docs you mean ? Please provide it if you have the link, I've checked the code it would merge two empty regions if the merging condition fit. Thanks. On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 2:10 PM Lars Francke <lars.fran...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > the docs for the SimpleRegionNormalizer say that empty regions are not > merged. > Looking at the code I don't see anything that actually filters out empty > regions though. > > And I have logs here: > 2019-05-04 01:17:03,892 INFO > org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.normalizer.SimpleRegionNormalizer: Table > XXX, small region size: 0 plus its neighbor size: 0, less than the avg size > 5068.338632750398, merging them > > This is CDH 5.11 so it's a bit older but it already includes the > documentation and I don't see anything in current master branch either. > > Am I missing something obvious? > > Cheers, > Lars >