[jira] Commented: (ZOOKEEPER-702) GSoC 2010: Failure Detector Model

["Flavio Junqueira (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Flavio Junqueira commented on ZOOKEEPER-702:
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Thanks, Abmar. It looks good to me. I have one quick comment, though. Is there any configuration value that could be causing tests to run slower? I have the impression that tests are running slightly slower with your patch. One in particular that called my attention was QuorumZxidSyncTest:

{noformat}

Trunk: [junit] Running org.apache.zookeeper.test.QuorumZxidSyncTest
    [junit] Tests run: 2, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Time elapsed: 94.55 sec

702: [junit] Running org.apache.zookeeper.test.QuorumZxidSyncTest
    [junit] Tests run: 2, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Time elapsed: 139.985 sec
{noformat}

and this seems to be pretty consistent.

> GSoC 2010: Failure Detector Model
> ---------------------------------
>
>                 Key: ZOOKEEPER-702
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-702
>             Project: Zookeeper
>          Issue Type: Wish
>            Reporter: Henry Robinson
>            Assignee: Abmar Barros
>             Fix For: 3.4.0
>
>         Attachments: bertier-pseudo.txt, bertier-pseudo.txt, chen-pseudo.txt, chen-pseudo.txt, phiaccrual-pseudo.txt, phiaccrual-pseudo.txt, ZOOKEEPER-702-code.patch, ZOOKEEPER-702-doc.patch, ZOOKEEPER-702.patch, ZOOKEEPER-702.patch, ZOOKEEPER-702.patch, ZOOKEEPER-702.patch, ZOOKEEPER-702.patch, ZOOKEEPER-702.patch, ZOOKEEPER-702.patch, ZOOKEEPER-702.patch, ZOOKEEPER-702.patch, ZOOKEEPER-702.patch, ZOOKEEPER-702.patch, ZOOKEEPER-702.patch, ZOOKEEPER-702.patch, ZOOKEEPER-702.patch, ZOOKEEPER-702.patch, ZOOKEEPER-702.patch, ZOOKEEPER-702.patch, ZOOKEEPER-702.patch
>
>
> Failure Detector Module
> Possible Mentor
> Henry Robinson (henry at apache dot org)
> Requirements
> Java, some distributed systems knowledge, comfort implementing distributed systems protocols
> Description
> ZooKeeper servers detects the failure of other servers and clients by counting the number of 'ticks' for which it doesn't get a heartbeat from other machines. This is the 'timeout' method of failure detection and works very well; however it is possible that it is too aggressive and not easily tuned for some more unusual ZooKeeper installations (such as in a wide-area network, or even in a mobile ad-hoc network).
> This project would abstract the notion of failure detection to a dedicated Java module, and implement several failure detectors to compare and contrast their appropriateness for ZooKeeper. For example, Apache Cassandra uses a phi-accrual failure detector (http://ddsg.jaist.ac.jp/pub/HDY+04.pdf) which is much more tunable and has some very interesting properties. This is a great project if you are interested in distributed algorithms, or want to help re-factor some of ZooKeeper's internal code.

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