Re: memstoreSizeMB=0

2012-06-15 Thread Lars George
Hi Ash, What Dave said. MemStore's are part of the write path only. BlockCache is part of the read path only respectively. They only compete for heap on their own right, but have otherwise no direct relation. Lars On Jun 13, 2012, at 10:15 PM, Dave Revell wrote: > Here's a good starting poin

Re: memstoreSizeMB=0

2012-06-13 Thread Dave Revell
Here's a good starting point: http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#store.memstore , I think you misunderstand what a memstore is. Good luck! -Dave On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 10:50 AM, ashdamle wrote: > > Hello. This is my first post here. I've setup hbase with 2 column families > 2GB heap size with

memstoreSizeMB=0

2012-06-13 Thread ashdamle
Hello. This is my first post here. I've setup hbase with 2 column families 2GB heap size with memstore upper and lower set to 0.5 . I have a couple of wide rows with 200K to 500K columns. Upon querying the second time for the row, the memstoreSizeMB is still 0. The block cache hit ratio is aroun