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dhruba borthakur commented on HADOOP-4584:
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+1. 

> In step 4. should we wait for receiving a command or for receiving another 
> block?

we should wait for either one of them to occur

> In OfferService we process all the commands that are in the queue at once.

This might introduce delays in sending blockReceived/blockReports (especially 
whole processing block deletions). 

> Slow generation of blockReport at DataNode causes delay of sending heartbeat 
> to NameNode
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-4584
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4584
>             Project: Hadoop Core
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: dfs
>            Reporter: Hairong Kuang
>            Assignee: Suresh Srinivas
>             Fix For: 0.20.0
>
>         Attachments: 4584.patch
>
>
> sometimes due to disk or some other problems, datanode takes minutes or tens 
> of minutes to generate a block report. It causes the datanode not able to 
> send heartbeat to NameNode every 3 seconds. In the worst case, it makes 
> NameNode to detect a lost heartbeat and wrongly decide that the datanode is 
> dead.
> It would be nice to have two threads instead. One thread is for scanning data 
> directories and generating block report, and executes the requests sent by 
> NameNode; Another thread is for sending heartbeats, block reports, and 
> picking up the requests from NameNode. By having these two threads, the 
> sending of heartbeats will not get delayed by any slow block report or slow 
> execution of NameNode requests.

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