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Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 15:10:12 +0000 (UTC)
From: "Luke Brassard (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] [Commented] (ACCUMULO-1083) add concurrency to HDFS
 write-ahead log
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Luke Brassard commented on ACCUMULO-1083:
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I just want to confirm that I'm changing the correct setting: {code}root@plain ci> config -t ci -s server.wal.replication=1{code}
                
> add concurrency to HDFS write-ahead log
> ---------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: ACCUMULO-1083
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-1083
>             Project: Accumulo
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: tserver
>            Reporter: Adam Fuchs
>             Fix For: 1.6.0
>
>         Attachments: walog-performance.jpg
>
>
> When running tablet servers on beefy nodes (lots of disks), the write-ahead log can be a serious bottleneck. Today we ran a test of 1.5-SNAPSHOT on an 8-node (plus a master node) cluster in which the nodes had 32 cores and 15 drives each. Running with write-ahead log off resulted in a >4x performance improvement sustained over a long period.
> I believe the culprit is that the WAL is only using one file at a time per tablet server, which means HDFS is only appending to one drive (plus replicas). If we increase the number of concurrent WAL files supported on a tablet server we could probably drastically improve the performance on systems with many disks. As it stands, I believe Accumulo is significantly more optimized for a larger number of smaller nodes (3-4 drives).

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