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[jira] Commented: (HADOOP-6099) Allow configuring the IPC module to
send pings
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dhruba borthakur commented on HADOOP-6099:
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Konstantin commented on this issue via HDFS-278:
"why do you need additional configuration parameter ipc.client.ping?
Can you just use set ipc.ping.interval = -1 and treat it as no ping?
Then by default since ipc.ping.interval parameter is unofficial it will still equal 1 min,
and if you want to turn pings off you will need to specify it. Everything looks consistent with your plan.
I mean less parameters is better, right?"
I agree that your suggestion is simpler. But the reason I need another parameter is because I would like the dfsclient to abort if the server is unresponsive for only 20 seconds or so. Your approach does not let me change the default timeout value of 1 minute. Thats the reason I need a separate config parameter. Does it make sense?
> Allow configuring the IPC module to send pings
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> Key: HADOOP-6099
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6099
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: ipc
> Reporter: dhruba borthakur
> Assignee: dhruba borthakur
> Attachments: ipcPing.txt
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> The IPC Client sets a socketTimeout for the time period specified by the pingInterval and then sends a ping every pingInterval. This means that if a RPC server does not respond to a RPC client, then the RPC client blocks forever. This is a problem for applications that wants to switch quickly from one un-responsive HDFS cluster to a good one.
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