Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-hbase-issues-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 18992 invoked from network); 17 Mar 2011 18:22:51 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.3) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 17 Mar 2011 18:22:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 84611 invoked by uid 500); 17 Mar 2011 18:22:51 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-hbase-issues-archive@hbase.apache.org Received: (qmail 84569 invoked by uid 500); 17 Mar 2011 18:22:51 -0000 Mailing-List: contact issues-help@hbase.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Delivered-To: mailing list issues@hbase.apache.org Received: (qmail 84561 invoked by uid 99); 17 Mar 2011 18:22:50 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:22:50 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2000.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received: from [140.211.11.116] (HELO hel.zones.apache.org) (140.211.11.116) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:22:50 +0000 Received: from hel.zones.apache.org (hel.zones.apache.org [140.211.11.116]) by hel.zones.apache.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EECE3AE605 for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:22:29 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:22:29 +0000 (UTC) From: "Jonathan Gray (JIRA)" To: issues@hbase.apache.org Message-ID: <225999408.9656.1300386149582.JavaMail.tomcat@hel.zones.apache.org> In-Reply-To: <1075664717.7510.1300309109553.JavaMail.tomcat@hel.zones.apache.org> Subject: [jira] Commented: (HBASE-3658) Alert when heap is over committed MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-JIRA-FingerPrint: 30527f35849b9dde25b450d4833f0394 [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-3658?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13008052#comment-13008052 ] Jonathan Gray commented on HBASE-3658: -------------------------------------- +1 on refusing to start > Alert when heap is over committed > --------------------------------- > > Key: HBASE-3658 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-3658 > Project: HBase > Issue Type: Improvement > Affects Versions: 0.90.1 > Reporter: Jean-Daniel Cryans > Fix For: 0.92.0 > > > Something I just witnessed, the block cache setting was at 70% but the max global memstore size was at the default of 40% meaning that 110% of the heap can potentially be "assigned" and then you need more heap to do stuff like flushing and compacting. > We should run a configuration check that alerts the user when that happens and maybe even refuse to start. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira