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Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 06:14:26 +0800 (SGT)
From: Akshay Singh <akshay_iiit@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: Akshay Singh <akshay_iiit@yahoo.com>
Subject: Disabling balancer permanently in HBase
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Hi,=0A=0AI am trying to permanently switch off the balancer in HBase, as my=
 request distribution is not uniform across the data.=0A=0AI understand tha=
t this can be done by, setting balance_switch to false in hbase shell=0A=0A=
hbase(main):023:0> balance_switch false=0A=0AHowever, value of balance_swit=
ch is reset back to true.. every time I restart the HBase cluster (which ca=
nnot be avoided in my deployment scenario).=0A=0ASo my question is : Is the=
re a way to permanently/persistently disable the hbase balancer ? I could n=
ot find a property for this balance_switch.=0A=0AI though of one possible s=
olution, which is to set 'hbase.balancer.period' property to '-1'.. but it =
does not seems to work.=0A=0ALooking for suggestions.=0A=0AThanks,=0AAkshay
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