Try to set a higher number of DFS_DATANODE_BALANCE_MAX_NUM_CONCURRENT_MOVES_KEY will help. Default is 5. It's won't help much if u only use bandwidthPerSec and threshold.
-----邮件原件----- 发件人: Senthil Kumar [mailto:senthilec...@gmail.com] 发送时间: 2016年8月10日 21:28 收件人: hdfs-dev@hadoop.apache.org; senthilec...@apache.org 主题: HDFS Balancer - Recommended Threshold Value Hi Team , We are running big cluster ( 3000 nodes cluster ) , many time we are hitting Median Increasing to 99.99 % ( 80 % of the DN's ) . Balancer is running all time in cluster ..But still median is not coming down i.e < 90 % .. Here is how i start balancer ? /apache/hadoop/sbin/start-balancer.sh -Ddfs.balance.bandwidthPerSec=104857600 *-threshold 30* What the recommended value for thershold ?? Is there any way to pass param only to move blocks from Over Utilized ( 98-100%) to under utilized ? Pls advise! Regards, Senthil