I'm getting this exception 2014-06-03 19:59:13 STDIO [ERROR][id:] Jun 03, 2014 7:59:13 PM org.jboss.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline WARNING: An exception was thrown by a user handler while handling an exception event ([id: 0xdcf3be42] EXCEPTION: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused) java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: timeout value is negative at java.lang.Thread.sleep(Native Method) at backtype.storm.messaging.netty.Client.reconnect(Client.java:94) at backtype.storm.messaging.netty.StormClientHandler.exceptionCaught(StormClientHandler.java:118) at org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.frame.FrameDecoder.exceptionCaught(FrameDecoder.java:377)
*Here's my storm.yaml (from nimbus/zookeeper only server.... hence ports are commented)* storm.zookeeper.servers: - "ma-app05.corp.mydomain.com" storm.zookeeper.port: 2181 storm.zookeeper.root: "/storm" storm.zookeeper.session.timeout: 20000 storm.zookeeper.connection.timeout: 15000 storm.zookeeper.retry.times: 5 storm.zookeeper.retry.interval: 1000 storm.zookeeper.retry.intervalceiling.millis: 30000 nimbus.host: "ma-app05.corp.mydomain.com" nimbus.thrift.port: 6627 nimbus.thrift.max_buffer_size: 1048576 nimbus.childopts: "-Xmx1024m" nimbus.task.timeout.secs: 30 nimbus.supervisor.timeout.secs: 60 nimbus.monitor.freq.secs: 10 nimbus.cleanup.inbox.freq.secs: 600 nimbus.inbox.jar.expiration.secs: 3600 nimbus.task.launch.secs: 120 nimbus.reassign: true nimbus.file.copy.expiration.secs: 600 nimbus.topology.validator: "backtype.storm.nimbus.DefaultTopologyValidator" #No supervisor in Nimbus. Pls. note that storm might still be loading the default conf, if it requires. #supervisor.slots.ports: # - 9951 # - 9952 # - 9953 # - 9954 # - 9955 #supervisor.worker.start.timeout.secs: 120 #supervisor.worker.timeout.secs: 30 #supervisor.monitor.frequency.secs: 3 #supervisor.heartbeat.frequency.secs: 5 #supervisor.enable: true ui.port: 8181 ui.childopts: "-Xmx256m" logviewer.port: 8000 logviewer.childopts: "-Xmx128m" logviewer.appender.name: "A1" worker.childopts: "-Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps -verbose:gc -Xloggc:/app/local/var/logs/jvm-stat/gc-storm-worker-%ID%.log" worker.heartbeat.frequency.secs: 1 task.heartbeat.frequency.secs: 3 task.refresh.poll.secs: 10 #zmq.threads: 1 #zmq.linger.millis: 5000 #zmq.hwm: 0 storm.local.dir: "/ngs/app/isdbd/local/var/run/storm/data" storm.local.mode.zmq: false storm.cluster.mode: "distributed" storm.thrift.transport: "backtype.storm.security.auth.SimpleTransportPlugin" storm.messaging.transport: "backtype.storm.messaging.netty.Context" storm.messaging.transport: "backtype.storm.messaging.netty.Context" storm.messaging.netty.server_worker_threads: 1 storm.messaging.netty.client_worker_threads: 1 storm.messaging.netty.buffer_size: 5242880 storm.messaging.netty.max_retries: 100 storm.messaging.netty.max_wait_ms: 1000 storm.messaging.netty.min_wait_ms: 500 java.library.path: "/usr/local/lib:/opt/local/lib:/usr/lib" topology.enable.message.timeouts: true topology.debug: false topology.optimize: true topology.workers: 5 topology.acker.executors: null topology.tasks: null topology.message.timeout.secs: 30 topology.skip.missing.kryo.registrations: false topology.max.task.parallelism: null topology.max.spout.pending: 20 topology.state.synchronization.timeout.secs: 60 topology.stats.sample.rate: 0.05 topology.builtin.metrics.bucket.size.secs: 60 topology.fall.back.on.java.serialization: true topology.worker.childopts: "-Xmx512m" topology.executor.receive.buffer.size: 1024 topology.executor.send.buffer.size: 1024 topology.receiver.buffer.size: 8 topology.transfer.buffer.size: 1024 topology.tick.tuple.freq.secs: null topology.worker.shared.thread.pool.size: 4 topology.disruptor.wait.strategy: "com.lmax.disruptor.BlockingWaitStrategy" topology.spout.wait.strategy: "backtype.storm.spout.SleepSpoutWaitStrategy" topology.sleep.spout.wait.strategy.time.ms: 1 topology.error.throttle.interval.secs: 10 topology.max.error.report.per.interval: 5 topology.kryo.factory: "backtype.storm.serialization.DefaultKryoFactory" topology.tuple.serializer: "backtype.storm.serialization.types.ListDelegateSerializer" topology.trident.batch.emit.interval.millis: 500 #dev.zookeeper.path: "/tmp/dev-storm-zookeeper"