[HBASE-820] Need mainline to flush when 'Blocking updates' goes up.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.2.1, 0.18.0
• Assignee: Jean-Daniel Cryans
• Reporter: Michael Stack
• Created: 12/Aug/08 03:59
• Updated: 13/Sep/08 23:22
• Resolved: 12/Aug/08 17:23

Description

Look at the below. Blocking goes up and flush doesn't happen for nearly ten minutes (Other flushes happen in the meantime no problem). We need to run a flush immediately; schedule it before all others.

2008-08-12 01:45:54,175 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.HRegion: Blocking updates for 'IPC Server handler 9 on 60020' on region TestTable,0024119972,1218505443888: Memcache size 64.0m is >= than blocking 64.0m size
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2008-08-12 01:54:36,695 DEBUG org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.HRegion: Started memcache flush for region TestTable,0024119972,1218505443888. Current region memcache size 64.0m