client failure detectionin ZK

[Jun Rao <ju...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

What config parameters in ZK determine how soon a failed client is detected?
Thanks,

Jun

Re: client failure detectionin ZK

[Patrick Hunt <ph...@apache.org>]

Generally it should be determined by your requirements around failure 
detection/recovery.

The higher you set it the less susceptible to intermittent failures you 
rare (brief network outages say, or GC pauses on the client). However 
this means that it takes longer to discover/recover from a real failure.

The lower you set it the faster you'll discover/recover from a real 
failure, but you also have the potential to see more "false positives".

Setting this really depends on your use case(s) -- your application 
requirements. Typically I see btw 5 and 30 seconds being used.

Patrick

On 08/17/2010 08:51 AM, Jun Rao wrote:
> Thanks. Also, suppose that I know the average network latency, what's
> the rule of thumb to set the value of session timeout?
>
> Jun
>
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Patrick Hunt <phunt@apache.org
> <ma...@apache.org>> wrote:
>
>     The session timeout is used for this:
>     http://hadoop.apache.org/zookeeper/docs/current/zookeeperProgrammers.html#ch_zkSessions
>
>     Patrick
>
>
>     On 08/16/2010 01:47 PM, Jun Rao wrote:
>
>         Hi,
>
>         What config parameters in ZK determine how soon a failed client
>         is detected?
>         Thanks,
>
>         Jun
>
>

Re: client failure detectionin ZK

[Patrick Hunt <ph...@apache.org>]

The session timeout is used for this:
http://hadoop.apache.org/zookeeper/docs/current/zookeeperProgrammers.html#ch_zkSessions

Patrick

On 08/16/2010 01:47 PM, Jun Rao wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What config parameters in ZK determine how soon a failed client is detected?
> Thanks,
>
> Jun
>