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-<?xml version="1.0"?>
-<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="configuration.xsl"?>
-<!--
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--->
-<configuration>
-  <property>
-    <name>hbase.regionserver.msginterval</name>
-    <value>1000</value>
-    <description>Interval between messages from the RegionServer to HMaster
-    in milliseconds.  Default is 15. Set this value low if you want unit
-    tests to be responsive.
-    </description>
-  </property>
-  <property>
-    <name>hbase.defaults.for.version.skip</name>
-    <value>true</value>
-  </property>
-  <property>
-    <name>hbase.server.thread.wakefrequency</name>
-    <value>1000</value>
-    <description>Time to sleep in between searches for work (in milliseconds).
-    Used as sleep interval by service threads such as hbase:meta scanner and log roller.
-    </description>
-  </property>
-  <property>
-    <name>hbase.master.event.waiting.time</name>
-    <value>50</value>
-    <description>Time to sleep between checks to see if a table event took place.
-    </description>
-  </property>
-  <property>
-    <name>hbase.regionserver.handler.count</name>
-    <value>5</value>
-  </property>
-  <property>
-    <name>hbase.regionserver.metahandler.count</name>
-    <value>5</value>
-  </property>
-  <property>
-      <name>hbase.ipc.server.read.threadpool.size</name>
-    <value>3</value>
-  </property>
-  <property>
-    <name>hbase.master.info.port</name>
-    <value>-1</value>
-    <description>The port for the hbase master web UI
-    Set to -1 if you do not want the info server to run.
-    </description>
-  </property>
-  <property>
-    <name>hbase.master.port</name>
-    <value>0</value>
-    <description>Always have masters and regionservers come up on port '0' so we don't clash over
-      default ports.
-    </description>
-  </property>
-  <property>
-    <name>hbase.regionserver.port</name>
-    <value>0</value>
-    <description>Always have masters and regionservers come up on port '0' so we don't clash over
-      default ports.
-    </description>
-  </property>
-  <property>
-    <name>hbase.ipc.client.fallback-to-simple-auth-allowed</name>
-    <value>true</value>
-  </property>
-
-  <property>
-    <name>hbase.regionserver.info.port</name>
-    <value>-1</value>
-    <description>The port for the hbase regionserver web UI
-    Set to -1 if you do not want the info server to run.
-    </description>
-  </property>
-  <property>
-    <name>hbase.regionserver.info.port.auto</name>
-    <value>true</value>
-    <description>Info server auto port bind. Enables automatic port
-    search if hbase.regionserver.info.port is already in use.
-    Enabled for testing to run multiple tests on one machine.
-    </description>
-  </property>
-  <property>
-    <name>hbase.master.lease.thread.wakefrequency</name>
-    <value>3000</value>
-    <description>The interval between checks for expired region server leases.
-    This value has been reduced due to the other reduced values above so that
-    the master will notice a dead region server sooner. The default is 15 seconds.
-    </description>
-  </property>
-  <property>
-    <name>hbase.regionserver.safemode</name>
-    <value>false</value>
-    <description>
-    Turn on/off safe mode in region server. Always on for production, always off
-    for tests.
-    </description>
-  </property>
-  <property>
-    <name>hbase.hregion.max.filesize</name>
-    <value>67108864</value>
-    <description>
-    Maximum desired file size for an HRegion.  If filesize exceeds
-    value + (value / 2), the HRegion is split in two.  Default: 256M.
-
-    Keep the maximum filesize small so we split more often in tests.
-    </description>
-  </property>
-  <property>
-    <name>hadoop.log.dir</name>
-    <value>${user.dir}/../logs</value>
-  </property>
-  <property>
-    <name>hbase.zookeeper.property.clientPort</name>
-    <value>21818</value>
-    <description>Property from ZooKeeper's config zoo.cfg.
-    The port at which the clients will connect.
-    </description>
-  </property>
-  <property>
-    <name>hbase.defaults.for.version.skip</name>
-    <value>true</value>
-    <description>
-    Set to true to skip the 'hbase.defaults.for.version'.
-    Setting this to true can be useful in contexts other than
-    the other side of a maven generation; i.e. running in an
-    ide.  You'll want to set this boolean to true to avoid
-    seeing the RuntimException complaint: "hbase-default.xml file
-    seems to be for and old version of HBase (@@@VERSION@@@), this
-    version is X.X.X-SNAPSHOT"
-    </description>
-  </property>
-  <property>
-    <name>hbase.table.sanity.checks</name>
-    <value>false</value>
-    <description>Skip sanity checks in tests
-    </description>
-  </property>
-  <property>
-    <name>hbase.procedure.fail.on.corruption</name>
-    <value>true</value>
-    <description>
-      Enable replay sanity checks on procedure tests.
-    </description>
-  </property>
-</configuration>