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Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:24:30 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: [jira] Updated: (HADOOP-1820) [hbase] regionserver creates hlogs
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stack updated HADOOP-1820:
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> [hbase] regionserver creates hlogs without bound
> ------------------------------------------------
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>                 Key: HADOOP-1820
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1820
>             Project: Hadoop
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: contrib/hbase
>            Reporter: stack
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: excerpt.log
>
>
> Regionserver keeps log of all edits for all the regions its carrying.  Its used recoverying state if a regionserver crashes: edits that have not been persisted to an HStoreFile are rerun to populate memcache which in turn is converted to an on-filesytem HStoreFile.  On a period, the log is rotated and a new one is opened.  While the region server is up, the logs grow in number without bound.  Only the most recent contain unpersisted edits.  If the region server goes down clean, then its logs are cleaned up. If a region server crashes, as part of recovery, the logs of edits are sorted and split  per region.  Recovery would run faster if it did not have to plough through reams of stale edits.
> Just now, I had a host crash w/ 112 log files each of 30k plus edits each.
> We could rename the log rolling thread the log maintainer.  As well as rolling logs, it could check for edit logs to clean.  When rolled, logs could be marked with the sequence id of their last contained edit.  The thread could on a period ask each hosted region for the "lowest highest" sequence id of all regions deployed.  Once this number had crossed out that on a particular log, the log could be cleaned up safely.

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