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[jira] [Created] (HDFS-8873) throttle directoryScanner

Nathan Roberts created HDFS-8873:
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             Summary: throttle directoryScanner
                 Key: HDFS-8873
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-8873
             Project: Hadoop HDFS
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: datanode
    Affects Versions: 2.7.1
            Reporter: Nathan Roberts


The new 2-level directory layout can make directory scans expensive in terms of disk seeks (see HDFS-8791) for details. 

It would be good if the directoryScanner() had a configurable duty cycle that would reduce its impact on disk performance (much like the approach in HDFS-8617). 

Without such a throttle, disks can go 100% busy for many minutes at a time (assuming the common case of all inodes in cache but no directory blocks cached, 64K seeks are required for full directory listing which translates to 655 seconds) 





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