[jira] [Created] (HBASE-17200) Document an interesting implication of HBASE-15212

["Andrew Purtell (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Andrew Purtell created HBASE-17200:
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             Summary: Document an interesting implication of HBASE-15212
                 Key: HBASE-17200
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-17200
             Project: HBase
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: documentation, Operability, Replication
            Reporter: Andrew Purtell
            Priority: Minor


We had a Phoenix client application unfortunately batching up 1000 rows at a time. Phoenix bundles mutations up only considering the row count not byte count (see PHOENIX-541) so this lead to some *single WALEdits* in excess of 600 MB. A cluster without max RPC size enforcement accepted them. (That may be something we should fix - WALEdits that large are crazy.) Then replication workers attempting to ship the monster edits from this cluster to a remote cluster recently upgraded with RPC size enforcement active would see all their RPC attempts rejected, because the default limit is 256 MB. 

This is an edge case but I can see it happening in practice and taking users by surprise, most likely when replicating between mixed versions. We should document this in the troubleshooting section. 



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