Re: Region server block cache and memstore size

2013-11-28 Thread Kevin O'dell
I agree with what Anoop said here, just because they are scans, it doesn't make a lot of sense to turn off your block cache. Are you trying to save memory? As for the memstore global limits, you will want to set those to something like upper .11 lower .10 You have to leave at the minimum .10,

Re: Region server block cache and memstore size

2013-11-28 Thread Anoop John
So you use Bulk load with HFileOpFormat for writing data? Then you can reduce the hbase.regionserver.global.memstore.upperLimit and hbase.regionserver.global.memstore.lowerLimit and give more heap % for the block cache. Not getting why u try to reduce that also. -Anoop- On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 a

Region server block cache and memstore size

2013-11-28 Thread Ivan Tretyakov
Hi! We are using HBase 0.92.1-cdh4.1.1. To import data the only way we use is bulk load. And our common access pattern is sequential scans of different parts of the tables. Since that we are considering to disable block cache by setting hbase.block.cache.size to zero. But We've found following in