BlockCache-and-MemStore-Properties

You can edit the hfile.block.cache.size and hbase.regionserver.global.memstore.upperLimit properties in the hbase-site.xml configuration file.


Property	Default Value	Description
`hfile.block.cache.size`	0.4	Proportion of maximum JVM heap size (Java `-Xmx` setting) to allocate to BlockCache. A value of 0.4 allocates 40% of the maximum heap size.
`hbase.regionserver.global.memstore.upperLimit`	0.4	Proportion of maximum JVM heap size (Java `-Xmx` setting) to allocate to MemStore. A value of 0.4 allocates 40% of the maximum heap size.