Nathan Roberts created HDFS-8873: ------------------------------------ Summary: throttle directoryScanner Key: HDFS-8873 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-8873 Project: Hadoop HDFS Issue Type: Bug Components: datanode Affects Versions: 2.7.1 Reporter: Nathan Roberts
The new 2-level directory layout can make directory scans expensive in terms of disk seeks (see HDFS-8791) for details. It would be good if the directoryScanner() had a configurable duty cycle that would reduce its impact on disk performance (much like the approach in HDFS-8617). Without such a throttle, disks can go 100% busy for many minutes at a time (assuming the common case of all inodes in cache but no directory blocks cached, 64K seeks are required for full directory listing which translates to 655 seconds) -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)