February 2015

There were 3 posts published in February 2015 (this is page 1 of 1).

Transparent Huge Pages on Hadoop makes me sad.

Today I (re)learned that I should pay attention to the details of Linux kernel bugs associated with my favorite distribution. Especially if I’m working on CentOS 6/Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 nodes running Transparent Huge Pages on Hadoop workloads. I was investigating some performance issues on our largest Hadoop cluster related to Datanode I/O […]

What’s in my datacenter tool kit?

Every Operations person or datacenter (DC) junkie that I know has a datacenter tool kit of some sort, containing their favorite bits of gear for doing work inside the cold, lonely world of the datacenter. Now, one would like to think that each company stocks the right tools for their folks to work, but tools […]

HBase Motel: SPLITS check in but don’t check out

In HBase, the Master process will periodically call for the splitting of a region if it becomes too large. Normally, this happens automatically, though you can manually trigger a split. In our case, we rarely do an explicit region split by hand. A new Master SPLIT behavior: let’s investigate We have an older HBase cluster […]