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Quentin Conner commented on CASSANDRA-6385: ------------------------------------------- breaking out FD phi initial condition to related issue > FD phi estimator initial conditions > ----------------------------------- > > Key: CASSANDRA-6385 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6385 > Project: Cassandra > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Core > Reporter: Quentin Conner > > phi estimates are calculated for newly discovered nodes from an un-filled > (new, uninitialized) deque. > The inter-arrival time (elapsed time between gossip heartbeats) is stored in > the o.a.c.gms.ArrivalWindow.arrivalIntervale deque for each received > heartbeat, up to the maximum window size of 1000 samples. > In the o.a.c.gms.FailureDetector.interpret() method, phi is calculated for > the node which uses a statistical measure called variance. Like mean, > variance on a population (a set of numbers or measurements) is not > statistically relevant unless the population set size is 30 or greater. > When a new node is discovered, the calculated variance is higher than normal, > and causes phi to be higher than normal, resulting in a false positive > failure detection. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1#6144)