In the upcoming 1.1.0 release, the following would make balancer state inspection more user-friendly: HBASE-13222 Provide means of non-destructive balancer inspection
FYI On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 4:11 AM, Dejan Menges <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jean-Marc, > > Ok, that's what I thought too, just wasn't sure as I didn't see any error > anywhere, neither something happening when I run balancer, so it's good > then :) > > Thanks a lot! > Dejan > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 12:52 PM Jean-Marc Spaggiari < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Dejan, > > > > Most probably because the cluster is balanced enough? > > > > You can run the balancer from the shell and look in the logs to see > what's > > the outcome. > > > > Simply type "hbase shell" and then "balancer". It will also return the > > state of the balancer (true for active, false of passive). > > > > JM > > > > 2015-04-29 6:46 GMT-04:00 Dejan Menges <[email protected]>: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > During investigation of some issues during hotspoting we were moving > some > > > regions to different region servers. However, now I see that balancer > is > > > not affecting those regions anymore - they 'stick' to those servers. Is > > > there a way to force rebalancing in case like this? > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > >
