See here about a long discussion of the topic: http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/rp-16s01p05/scala/split-brain-resolver.html
auto-down is not very reliable. if you don't want to use SBR, then you can implement a simple quorum (or monitoring system) based downing yourself. -- Konrad `ktoso` Malawski Akka <http://akka.io> @ Lightbend <http://lightbend.com> On 21 July 2016 at 10:09:56, Yutao Shuai (szqs...@gmail.com) wrote: Description of the problem: In a 3-node cluster, all nodes monitor each other, when a connection between two nodes fails, the cluster divide into 3 cluster, every cluster have one node. Example: For example, In 3-node cluster, the default value of monitored-by-nr-of-members is 5, and enable the auto-down, assume the cluster nodes is 1-2-3, when the connection between 2 and 3 fails, 2 think 3 is unreachable, and 3 think is unreachable too. After a period of time, 1 remove the 2 and 3 from the cluster, because of the connection failure between 2 and 3, the cluster divide into three 1-node cluster eventually. -- >>>>>>>>>> Read the docs: http://akka.io/docs/ >>>>>>>>>> Check the FAQ: http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/additional/faq.html >>>>>>>>>> Search the archives: https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Akka User List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to akka-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to akka-user@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- >>>>>>>>>> Read the docs: http://akka.io/docs/ >>>>>>>>>> Check the FAQ: >>>>>>>>>> http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/additional/faq.html >>>>>>>>>> Search the archives: https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Akka User List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to akka-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to akka-user@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.