I have found that our RegionServers connect to the ZooKeeper frequently. They seems to constantly establish the session, close it and reconnect the ZooKeeper. Here is the log for both server and client sides. I have no idea why this happens and how to deal with it? We're using HBase 0.94.11 and ZooKeeper 3.4.4.
The log from HBase RegionServer:
2014-09-18,16:38:17,867 INFO org.apache.zookeeper.ZooKeeper: Initiating client connection, connectString=10.2.201.74:11000,10.2.201.73:11000,10.101.10.67:11000,10.101.10.66:11000,10.2.201.75:11000 sessionTimeout=30000 watcher=catalogtracker-on-org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HConnectionManager$HConnectionImplementation@69d892a1 2014-09-18,16:38:17,868 INFO org.apache.zookeeper.client.ZooKeeperSaslClient: Client will use GSSAPI as SASL mechanism. 2014-09-18,16:38:17,868 INFO org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxn: Opening socket connection to server lg-hadoop-srv-ct01.bj/10.2.201.73:11000. Will attempt to SASL-authenticate using Login Context section 'Client' 2014-09-18,16:38:17,868 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hbase.zookeeper.RecoverableZooKeeper: The identifier of this process is 11787@lg-hadoop-srv-st05.bj 2014-09-18,16:38:17,868 INFO org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxn: Socket connection established to lg-hadoop-srv-ct01.bj/10.2.201.73:11000, initiating session 2014-09-18,16:38:17,870 INFO org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxn: Session establishment complete on server lg-hadoop-srv-ct01.bj/10.2.201.73:11000, sessionid = 0x248782700e52b3c, negotiated timeout = 30000 2014-09-18,16:38:17,876 INFO org.apache.zookeeper.ZooKeeper: Session: 0x248782700e52b3c closed 2014-09-18,16:38:17,876 INFO org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxn: EventThread shut down 2014-09-18,16:38:17,878 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hbase.replication.regionserver.ReplicationSink: Total replicated: 24
The log from its ZooKeeper server:
2014-09-18,16:38:17,869 INFO org.apache.zookeeper.server.NIOServerCnxnFactory: [myid:2] Accepted socket connection from /10.2.201.76:55621 2014-09-18,16:38:17,869 INFO org.apache.zookeeper.server.ZooKeeperServer: [myid:2] Client attempting to establish new session at /10.2.201.76:55621 2014-09-18,16:38:17,870 INFO org.apache.zookeeper.server.ZooKeeperServer: [myid:2] Established session 0x248782700e52b3c with negotiated timeout 30000 for client /10.2.201.76:55621 2014-09-18,16:38:17,872 INFO org.apache.zookeeper.server.auth.SaslServerCallbackHandler: [myid:2] Successfully authenticated client: authenticationID=hbase_srv/hadoop@XIAOMI.HADOOP; authorizationID=hbase_srv/hadoop@XIAOMI.HADOOP. 2014-09-18,16:38:17,872 INFO org.apache.zookeeper.server.auth.SaslServerCallbackHandler: [myid:2] Setting authorizedID: hbase_srv 2014-09-18,16:38:17,872 INFO org.apache.zookeeper.server.ZooKeeperServer: [myid:2] adding SASL authorization for authorizationID: hbase_srv 2014-09-18,16:38:17,877 INFO org.apache.zookeeper.server.NIOServerCnxn: [myid:2] Closed socket connection for client /10.2.201.76:55621 which had sessionid 0x248782700e52b3c