[jira] Commented: (HADOOP-1079) DFS Scalability: Incremental block reports

["Doug Cutting (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Doug Cutting commented on HADOOP-1079:
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>From http://www.nabble.com/-tt16976556.html

Long ago we talked of implementing partial, incremental block reports.
We'd divide blockid space into 64 sections.  The datanode would ask the
namenode for the hash of its block ids in a section.  Full block lists
would then only be sent when the hash differs.  Both sides would
maintain hashes of all sections in memory.  Then, instead of making a
block report every hour, we'd make a 1/64 block id check every minute.


> DFS Scalability: Incremental block reports
> ------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-1079
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1079
>             Project: Hadoop Core
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>          Components: dfs
>            Reporter: dhruba borthakur
>            Assignee: dhruba borthakur
>         Attachments: blockReportPeriod.patch
>
>
> I have a cluster that has 1800 datanodes. Each datanode has around 50000 blocks and sends a block report to the namenode once every hour. This means that the namenode processes a block report once every 2 seconds. Each block report contains all blocks that the datanode currently hosts. This makes the namenode compare a huge number of blocks that practically remains the same between two consecutive reports. This wastes CPU on the namenode.
> The problem becomes worse when the number of datanodes increases.
> One proposal is to make succeeding block reports (after a successful send of a full block report) be incremental. This will make the namenode process only those blocks that were added/deleted in the last period.

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