[jira] [Created] (HDFS-5837) dfs.namenode.replication.considerLoad does not consider decommissioned nodes

["Bryan Beaudreault (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Bryan Beaudreault created HDFS-5837:
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             Summary: dfs.namenode.replication.considerLoad does not consider decommissioned nodes
                 Key: HDFS-5837
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-5837
             Project: Hadoop HDFS
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: namenode
            Reporter: Bryan Beaudreault


In DefaultBlockPlacementPolicy, there is a setting dfs.namenode.replication.considerLoad which tries to balance the load of the cluster when choosing replica locations.  This code does not take into account decommissioned nodes.

The code for considerLoad calculates the load by doing:  TotalClusterLoad /
numNodes.  However, numNodes includes decommissioned nodes (which have 0 load).  Therefore, the average load is artificially low.  Example:

TotalLoad = 250
numNodes = 100
decommissionedNodes = 50

avgLoad = 250/100 = 2.50
trueAvgLoad = 250 / (100 - 70) = 8.33

If the real load of the remaining 30 nodes is (on average) 8.33, this is more than 2x the calculated average load of 2.50.  This causes these nodes to be rejected as replica locations. The final result is that all nodes are rejected, and no replicas can be placed.  

See exceptions printed from client during this scenario: https://gist.github.com/bbeaudreault/49c8aa4bb231de54e9c1




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