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[email protected] commented on FLUME-1030:
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(Updated 2012-03-23 02:41:03.472482)
Review request for Flume.
Changes
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Wasn't applying the penalty limit, fixed now
Summary
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As discussed in the JIRA item, I modified FailoverSink to deal with all
exceptions.
Now a sink that fails will be put onto a failed links queue, from which a
recovery will be attempted after a timeout. Each sequential failure the timeout
will increase. I am open to other methods of increasing the timeout(maybe add
on a ceiling?)
This addresses bug FLUME-1030.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-1030
Diffs (updated)
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flume-ng-core/src/test/java/org/apache/flume/sink/TestFailoverSinkProcessor.java
195c121
flume-ng-core/src/main/java/org/apache/flume/sink/FailoverSinkProcessor.java
7eada57
Diff: https://reviews.apache.org/r/4445/diff
Testing
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Modified the test for the new functionality, new test passes
No other tests should be affected, but my environment was having some weird
problems. I'll look into them tomorrow, just leaving this up so people can have
a browse and will confirm tests passing tomorrow
Thanks,
Juhani
> Distinguish between temporary and longterm failure to avoid repeated beating
> on dead components
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> Key: FLUME-1030
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-1030
> Project: Flume
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Sinks+Sources
> Reporter: Juhani Connolly
> Assignee: Juhani Connolly
> Fix For: v1.2.0
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> Attachments: FLUME-1030.2.patch, FLUME-1030.3.patch
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> One may want to refer to FLUME-984 for some history of this.
> As it stands, a sink can have several outcomes:
> - OK - succesfully transferred some data
> - TRY_LATER - no data to transfer
> - throw EventDeliveryException - Give the sink a short breather to recover,
> then try again
> - throw anything else - get logged and more or less ignored
> I don't think the last choice in particular is a good idea as it encourages
> throwing Sink specific exceptions. Further, there is no distinction between
> temporary disconnectivity(e.g. HBase timed out because of a compaction or
> something), and more permanent problems(e.g. cannot write to a file).
> One solution to this is to add a second type of exception that delivery
> mechanisms can throw, ConnectivityException/FatalException or something
> similar. For the purposes of any failover/load balancing mechanism this would
> signal that a component is out of order for a more significant amount of time
> and thus constant polling should be stopped(perhaps retry it every 5 minutes
> instead, or have an exponentially increasing retry time).
> If adding another exception is not deemed acceptable, there is always the
> possibility of expecting SinkProcessors to figure out if a sink is dead...
> E.g. counting sequential failures, though I do not think this is ideal. I
> would prefer to see a clear contract defined by SinkRunner that well behaved
> sinks could adhere to and get the benefits of graceful temporary/longterm
> failure from.
> If someone has other suggestions for distinguishing between temporary and
> longer term failure please let me know. As it stands, components that are
> unresponsive can and do get called constantly, and some components trigger
> retries and can actually block a SinkRunner thread for a fair while.
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