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Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 10:44:25 -0700
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Subject: Re: question about region assignment
From: Ted Yu <yuzhihong@gmail.com>
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Are you using 0.90.1 (where regions are randomly distributed across cluser)
?
I logged HBASE-3373 but was told it is specific to our usage.

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Jack Levin <magnito@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello, we have this one table what about 12 regions, that is super hot
> with writes, for some reason most of the regions were assigned to a
> single server, which cause it to flush and compact every 10 minutes,
> causing suboptimal performance.  We do use random row_keys, so I don't
> see how sorted ROWs can land on single region anyway, the issue was
> that each region was assigned to the same region server, is there a
> way to mitigate the issue?  I closed closing the regions manually, but
> they went right back to the same server, finally I shutdown RS
> process, and that table's regions went in random places around the
> cluster, but still its puzzling, anyone had issues like that?
>
> -Jack
>

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