Index: hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/HBaseAdmin.java IDEA additional info: Subsystem: com.intellij.openapi.diff.impl.patch.CharsetEP <+>UTF-8 =================================================================== --- hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/HBaseAdmin.java (revision 3dd220f8fdf6e34e11ffa309ff182172f6346091) +++ hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/HBaseAdmin.java (revision ) @@ -460,7 +460,8 @@ if (triesCount >= HConstants.RETRY_BACKOFF.length) { triesCount = HConstants.RETRY_BACKOFF.length - 1; } - return this.pause * HConstants.RETRY_BACKOFF[triesCount]; + // if hbase.client.pause is set to 0 use 1 instead to not brake retry back-off logic + return (this.pause != 0 ? this.pause : 1) * HConstants.RETRY_BACKOFF[triesCount]; } /**