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Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 13:37:14 -0500
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Subject: Re: Can I pre-create tablets?
From: David Medinets <david.medinets@gmail.com>
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My mistake... The command I used was "addsplits 1,2,3,4,5,6, etc..."
and, of course, I should have used a space between split values.
Accumulo is working fine. This was a user error.

On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Eric Newton <eric.newton@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm confused.
>
>
>> I created a table with 100 splits.
>
>  OK
>>
>> However, at the
>> start of the job, there was just one tablet.
>
> ?
>>
>> Is there a way to pre-create the tablets so
>> I can have 100 tablets accepting entries from the start of the
>> map-reduce job?
>
>
> So, you created a table with splits, then you didn't have have multiple
> tablets?
>
> Did you read from a split tablet and output to a new table?
>
> Or are all your tablets sitting on one tablet server?
>
> The current load balancer isn't terribly aggressive about moving new splits
> off to other servers.
>
> One way to work around this problem is to create the table, with splits,
> offline the table and bring it online again.  That will spread them around
> pretty fast.
>
> -Eric
>