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Brandon Williams commented on CASSANDRA-3294:
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One thing that occurs to me here is that the FD is sort of a one-way device: we
can send it hints that something is alive, but we can't send it hints that
something is dead. Thus, the only way a node can be marked down is by its phi
decaying over time. If we added the ability to negatively affect the phi
directly (TCP connection isn't present, or has been refused, etc) this could
speed failure detection up considerably.
> a node whose TCP connection is not up should be considered down for the
> purpose of reads and writes
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> Key: CASSANDRA-3294
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-3294
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Peter Schuller
> Assignee: Peter Schuller
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> Cassandra fails to handle the most simple of cases intelligently - a process
> gets killed and the TCP connection dies. I cannot see a good reason to wait
> for a bunch of RPC timeouts and thousands of hung requests to realize that we
> shouldn't be sending messages to a node when the only possible means of
> communication is confirmed down. This is why one has to "disablegossip and
> wait for a while" to restar a node on a busy cluster (especially without
> CASSANDRA-2540 but that only helps under certain circumstances).
> A more generalized approach where by one e.g. weights in the number of
> currently outstanding RPC requests to a node, would likely take care of this
> case as well. But until such a thing exists and works well, it seems prudent
> to have the very common and controlled form of "failure" be handled better.
> Are there difficulties I'm not seeing?
> I can see that one may want to distinguish between considering something
> "really down" (and e.g. fail a repair because it's down) from what I'm
> talking about, so maybe there are different concepts (say one is "currently
> unreachable" rather than "down") being conflated. But in the specific case of
> sending reads/writes to a node we *know* we cannot talk to, it seems
> unnecessarily detrimental.
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