[HBASE-6028] Implement a cancel for in-progress compactions

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0-alpha-1, 2.2.0
• Component/s: regionserver
• Labels: beginner
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed

Release Note

Added a new command to the shell to switch on/off compactions called "compaction_switch". Disabling compactions will interrupt any currently ongoing compactions. This setting will be lost on restart of the server. Added the configuration hbase.regionserver.compaction.enabled so user can enable/disable compactions via hbase-site.xml.

• Tags: beginner
• Assignee: Mohit Goel
• Reporter: Derek Wollenstein
• Created: 17/May/12 01:59
• Updated: 11/Oct/19 23:40
• Resolved: 19/Jul/18 13:27

Description

Depending on current server load, it can be extremely expensive to run periodic minor / major compactions. It would be helpful to have a feature where a user could use the shell or a client tool to explicitly cancel an in-progress compactions. This would allow a system to recover when too many regions became eligible for compactions at once

Issue Links

• is related to: HBASE-20945 HBase JMX - timestamp of last Major Compaction (started, completed successfully)
• is related to: HBASE-20946 HMaster UI & JMX - warn if Major Compaction hasn't occurred after hbase.hregion.majorcompaction time
• relates to: HBASE-21679 Port HBASE-6028 (Start/Stop compactions at region server level) to branch-1
• relates to: HBASE-23152 Compaction_switch does not work by RegionServer name
• links to: Review Board Link