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Change HDFS balancer threshold
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HDFS balancer default threshold is 10, meaning the variation of DFS-used is between minus and plus 10 percent. As the cluster is relatively full (70%+), this can lead to hosts being 85% full.

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fdans renamed this task from Should we change HDFS balancer threshold? to Change HDFS balancer threshold.Sep 23 2019, 3:25 PM
fdans moved this task from Incoming to Operational Excellence on the Analytics board.

Change 540457 had a related patch set uploaded (by Ottomata; owner: Ottomata):
[operations/puppet@production] Run hdfs balancer with threshold of 5%

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/540457

Ottomata triaged this task as Low priority.
Ottomata added a project: Analytics-Kanban.
Ottomata moved this task from Next Up to In Code Review on the Analytics-Kanban board.

Change 540457 merged by Elukey:
[operations/puppet@production] Run hdfs balancer with threshold of 5%

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/540457

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-analytics) [2019-10-03T08:43:38Z] <elukey> apply 5% threshold to the HDFS balancer - T231828

Nuria set the point value for this task to 2.