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Gustavo Niemeyer commented on ZOOKEEPER-702: -------------------------------------------- This is very interesting work, and I'm looking forward to playing with the Phi failure detector. Thanks Abmar. One thing I'm noticing is that the patch is working only on the Java side so far, which means the C client and all the bindings which go against it won't currently benefit from it. Are there any plans for introducing support in the C libraries as well? > GSoC 2010: Failure Detector Model > --------------------------------- > > Key: ZOOKEEPER-702 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-702 > Project: ZooKeeper > Issue Type: Wish > Reporter: Henry Robinson > Assignee: Abmar Barros > Fix For: 3.4.0 > > Attachments: bertier-pseudo.txt, bertier-pseudo.txt, chen-pseudo.txt, > chen-pseudo.txt, phiaccrual-pseudo.txt, phiaccrual-pseudo.txt, > ZOOKEEPER-702-code.patch, ZOOKEEPER-702-doc.patch, ZOOKEEPER-702.patch, > ZOOKEEPER-702.patch, ZOOKEEPER-702.patch, ZOOKEEPER-702.patch, > ZOOKEEPER-702.patch, ZOOKEEPER-702.patch, ZOOKEEPER-702.patch, > ZOOKEEPER-702.patch, ZOOKEEPER-702.patch, ZOOKEEPER-702.patch, > ZOOKEEPER-702.patch, ZOOKEEPER-702.patch, ZOOKEEPER-702.patch, > ZOOKEEPER-702.patch, ZOOKEEPER-702.patch, ZOOKEEPER-702.patch, > ZOOKEEPER-702.patch, ZOOKEEPER-702.patch, ZOOKEEPER-702.patch, > ZOOKEEPER-702.patch > > > Failure Detector Module > Possible Mentor > Henry Robinson (henry at apache dot org) > Requirements > Java, some distributed systems knowledge, comfort implementing distributed > systems protocols > Description > ZooKeeper servers detects the failure of other servers and clients by > counting the number of 'ticks' for which it doesn't get a heartbeat from > other machines. This is the 'timeout' method of failure detection and works > very well; however it is possible that it is too aggressive and not easily > tuned for some more unusual ZooKeeper installations (such as in a wide-area > network, or even in a mobile ad-hoc network). > This project would abstract the notion of failure detection to a dedicated > Java module, and implement several failure detectors to compare and contrast > their appropriateness for ZooKeeper. For example, Apache Cassandra uses a > phi-accrual failure detector (http://ddsg.jaist.ac.jp/pub/HDY+04.pdf) which > is much more tunable and has some very interesting properties. This is a > great project if you are interested in distributed algorithms, or want to > help re-factor some of ZooKeeper's internal code. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.