[jira] [Assigned] (HBASE-6745) Always flush region based on memstore size could hold hlog files from archiving

["Jimmy Xiang (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-6745?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Jimmy Xiang reassigned HBASE-6745:
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    Assignee: Jimmy Xiang
    
> Always flush region based on memstore size could hold hlog files from archiving
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>                 Key: HBASE-6745
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-6745
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: replication, wal
>            Reporter: Jimmy Xiang
>            Assignee: Jimmy Xiang
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> Currently, memstore flusher always chooses the biggest memstore region to flush.
> Suppose I have two tables: one is very actively updated, while the other is periodically updated. The active one has biggest memstore all the time and is flushed all the time.  But the in-active one never gets a chance to flush.  Since it is not flushed, the hlog file can't be archived, although there are lots of hlog files.
> If the active table happens to have big updates all the time, the hlog files could cause huge disk space pressure.
> Other than the memstore size, periodically flushing regions based on hlog roll time is helpful in hlog archiving/replication.

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