From d5cca6aebc2f37645736e491f7fc1148abe42147 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Stack <stack@apache.org>
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 23:51:30 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add note on how to presplit for ycsb from HBASE-4163

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hbase/trunk@1548760 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
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 src/main/docbkx/book.xml | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/main/docbkx/book.xml b/src/main/docbkx/book.xml
index d1b86d970b6..00ba29404f4 100644
--- a/src/main/docbkx/book.xml
+++ b/src/main/docbkx/book.xml
@@ -2906,7 +2906,9 @@ hbase> describe 't1'</programlisting>
   <appendix>
       <title xml:id="ycsb"><link xlink:href="https://github.com/brianfrankcooper/YCSB/">YCSB: The Yahoo! Cloud Serving Benchmark</link> and HBase</title>
       <para>TODO: Describe how YCSB is poor for putting up a decent cluster load.</para>
-      <para>TODO: Describe setup of YCSB for HBase</para>
+      <para>TODO: Describe setup of YCSB for HBase.  In particular, presplit your tables before you start
+          a run.  See <link xlink:href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-4163">HBASE-4163 Create Split Strategy for YCSB Benchmark</link>
+          for why and a little shell command for how to do it.</para>
       <para>Ted Dunning redid YCSB so it's mavenized and added facility for verifying workloads.  See <link xlink:href="https://github.com/tdunning/YCSB">Ted Dunning's YCSB</link>.</para>
 
   </appendix>