Hi,
    we want to test if the regionserver cound be restart by:
    first step: $'kill -9 xxx(process number;
     2nd step:  $ ./hbase-daemon.sh start regionserver

   we stop the regionserver with 'kill -9 xxx(process number）‘， and want to
restart regionserver with ' ./hbase-daemon.sh start regionserver'.
   this way cannot work.  i find regionserver's error below:

012-12-25 19:47:42,555 INFO
org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.HRegionServer: Attempting connect to
Master server at hadoop1,60000,1355887294437

2012-12-25 19:47:42,599 INFO
org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.HRegionServer: Connected to master at
hadoop2/192.168.250.107:60020

2012-12-25 19:47:42,599 INFO
org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.HRegionServer: Telling master at
hadoop1,60000,1355887294437 that we are up with port=60020,
startcode=1356436062169

2012-12-25 19:47:42,605 FATAL
org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.HRegionServer: Master rejected startup
because clock is out of sync

org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ClockOutOfSyncException:
org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ClockOutOfSyncException: Server
hadoop2,60020,1356436062169 has been rejected; Reported time is too far out
of sync with master.  Time difference of 64785ms > max allowed of 30000ms
   can we user 'kill -9 xxx(process number) ?  or should we use '
$ ./bin/hbase-daemon.sh stop regionserver';

   this regionserver is a loaded one.

    how to restart this regionserver?
  many thanks!

beatls

Hi,

First, check the date/time on both server and check they don't differ;
that's what the error says.
You can configure the max allowed with "hbase.master.maxclockskew", but
it's unlikely to be a good idea: it's always safer, in any distributed
system, to have the servers sharing the same time. ntpd is often used for
this.

Second, it's better to use the stop command than doing a kill, especially a
kill -9. Doing a stop allows to close nicely the regions this server is
handling, and to unregister this region server in the master. With a kill
-9, it means that the master will have to detect that this regionserver is
dead. By default, that's 3 minutes (zookeeper timeout). In the meantime,
the regions on this server won't be available.

Lastly, there is a restart command in he hbase-daemon script: it does the
stop & the start..

Cheers,

Nicolas

On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 1:14 PM, hua beatls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
>    we stop the regionserver with 'kill -9 xxx(process number）‘， and want to
> restart regionserver with ' ./hbase-daemon.sh start

HI,
    yes, data/time is different, we correct the NTP configuraiton ,and
problem solved.
   Thanks!
    beatls

On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 10:40 PM, Nicolas Liochon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> First, check the date/time on both server and check they don't differ;
> that's what the error says.
> You can configure the max allowed with "hbase.master.maxclockskew", but
> it's unlikely to be a good idea: it's always safer, in any distributed
> system, to have the servers sharing the same time. ntpd is often used for
> this.
>
> Second, it's better to use the stop command than doing a kill, especially a
> kill -9. Doing a stop allows to close nicely the regions this server is
> handling, and to unregister this region server in the master. With a kill
> -9, it means that the master will have to detect that this regionserver is
> dead. By default, that's 3 minutes (zookeeper timeout). In the meantime,
> the regions on this server won't be available.
>
> Lastly, there is a restart command in he hbase-daemon script: it does the
> stop & the start..
>
> Cheers,
>
> Nicolas
>
> On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 1:14 PM, hua beatls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> >    we stop the regionserver with 'kill -9 xxx(process number）‘， and want
> to
> > restart regionserver with ' ./hbase-daemon.sh start
>