[jira] [Updated] (RATIS-153) Add continuous heartbeats between Ratis servers to avoid unnecessary leader elections

["Mukul Kumar Singh (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RATIS-153?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Mukul Kumar Singh updated RATIS-153:
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    Attachment: RATIS-153.001.patch

> Add continuous heartbeats between Ratis servers to avoid unnecessary leader elections
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>                 Key: RATIS-153
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RATIS-153
>             Project: Ratis
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Mukul Kumar Singh
>            Assignee: Mukul Kumar Singh
>            Priority: Major
>         Attachments: RATIS-153.001.patch
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> Currently the heartbeat monitor on the follower is updated when the last rpc is received from the leader. When this threshold crosses the *raft.server.rpc.timeout*, an election is triggered to elect a new leader.
> However generally it might happen that the leader doesn't had append entries to forward to the follower. This will trigger unnecessary leader elections.
> This also causes the Raft Client to find the new Leader as well which can be time consuming.
> This jira proposes to add a heartbeat mechanism, where the leader will periodically (lets say, raft.server.rpc.timeout/2) will send empty heartbeats to its followers to ensure that leader stays elected as the leader.



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