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[jira] [Updated] (HBASE-6567) make memory locking configuration of regioservers more flexible

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-6567?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Matteo Bertozzi updated HBASE-6567:
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    Attachment: HBASE-6567-v0.patch

Added HBASE_REGIONSERVER_UID and HBASE_REGIONSERVER_MLOCK in hbase-env.sh

Removed the --mlock option, HBASE_REGIONSERVER_MLOCK (boolean) is used.
                
> make memory locking configuration of regioservers more flexible
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HBASE-6567
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-6567
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: scripts
>    Affects Versions: 0.96.0
>            Reporter: Roman Shaposhnik
>            Assignee: Roman Shaposhnik
>             Fix For: 0.96.0
>
>         Attachments: HBASE-6567-v0.patch
>
>
> The current implementation of the memory locking feature of regisoservers has a downside of not being flexible to configure for permanent use. Sure there is a --mlock flag but that needs to be explicitly passed on every invocation and thus require extra steps to be configured for permanent use (IOW, there's not a single env variable I can set to have a desired effect). The only other alternative -- the explicit setting of HBASE_REGIONSERVER_OPTS -- has a downside of being pretty cryptic to the novice user and has a killer problem of not explicitly telling higher level scripts (like init.d or upstart ones) which user the initial hbase process should be executed as.
> I propose a very simple solution (which is essentially making --mlock setting into an env. variable): add a variable called HBASE_REGIONSERVER_MLOCK that can be set in hbase-env.sh and has the following semantics:
>    * [default] not set: mlocking feature is disabled
>    * set but empty: mlocking feature is enabled and the target user is hbase
>    * set and not empty: mlocking feature is enabled and the target user is the value of the variable
> Thoughts?

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