svn commit: r1476220 - /accumulo/branches/1.5/docs/administration.html

[ec...@apache.org]

Author: ecn
Date: Fri Apr 26 14:27:43 2013
New Revision: 1476220

URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1476220
Log:
ACCUMULO-1351 document timeout settings for hdfs

Modified:
    accumulo/branches/1.5/docs/administration.html

Modified: accumulo/branches/1.5/docs/administration.html
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/accumulo/branches/1.5/docs/administration.html?rev=1476220&r1=1476219&r2=1476220&view=diff
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@@ -98,5 +98,51 @@ false, then accumulo will only use memor
 not use more than what -Xmx is set to.  In this case the
 tserver.memory.maps.max setting should be 75% of the -Xmx setting. 
 
+<h3>Swappiness</h3>
+
+<p>The linux kernel will swap out memory of running programs to increase
+the size of the disk buffers.  This tendency to swap out is controlled by
+a kernel setting called "swappiness."  This behavior does not work well for
+large java servers.  When a java process runs a garbage collection, it touches
+lots of pages forcing all swapped out pages back into memory.  It is suggested
+that swappiness be set to zero.
+
+<pre>
+ # sysctl -w vm.swappiness=0
+ # echo "vm.swappiness = 0" &gt;&gt; /etc/sysctl.conf
+</pre>
+
+<h3>Hadoop timeouts</h3>
+
+<p>In order to detect failed datanodes, use shorter timeouts.  Add the following to your
+hdfs-site.xml file:
+
+<pre>
+
+  &lt;property&gt;
+    &lt;name&gt;dfs.socket.timeout&lt;/name&gt;
+    &lt;value&gt;3000&lt;/value&gt;
+  &lt;/property&gt;
+
+  &lt;property&gt;
+    &lt;name&gt;dfs.socket.write.timeout&lt;/name&gt;
+    &lt;value&gt;5000&lt;/value&gt;
+  &lt;/property&gt;
+
+  &lt;property&gt;
+    &lt;name&gt;ipc.client.connect.timeout&lt;/name&gt;
+    &lt;value&gt;1000&lt;/value&gt;
+  &lt;/property&gt;
+
+  &lt;property&gt;
+    &lt;name&gt;ipc.clident.connect.max.retries.on.timeouts&lt;/name&gt;
+    &lt;value&gt;2&lt;/value&gt;
+  &lt;/property&gt;
+
+
+
+</pre>
+
+
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