[ANN] Eclipse GIT plugin beta version released

2010-03-31 Thread Thomas Koch
GIT is one of the most popular distributed version control system. In the hope, that more Java developers may want to explore the world of easy branching, merging and patch management, I'd like to inform you, that a beta version of the upcoming Eclipse GIT plugin is available:

Re: Re: Re: Re: How to ensure trasaction create-and-update

2010-03-31 Thread zd.wbh
Ted, your suggested flow guaranteed the update sequence to succeed or fail completely. It is under the assumption that zookeeper requester is stable enough. what if a server restart occur in the update sequence, no abort or proceed action can be done. I'm just curious how to handle this kinds

Re: the error

2010-03-31 Thread Patrick Hunt
Hi Li, when you say 17 threads reading a znode, do you mean that you have 17 threads each creating a session and using that session to read a znode? If so it's probably due to this: http://hadoop.apache.org/zookeeper/docs/current/zookeeperAdmin.html#sc_advancedConfiguration see the parameter

Re: the error

2010-03-31 Thread Henry Robinson
Using two machines running ZK will actually decrease your reliability compared to using a single machine. Consider using one machine or three. ? Not meaning to pull the thread off-topic, but I don't understand why this should be the case. Can you elaborate? With majority-based quorums,

Re: the error

2010-03-31 Thread Ted Dunning
Suppose a machine has probability of soft-failure p_1 and catastrophic p_2 p_1. Assume that two machines have independent failure modes. Probably of soft failure of a one machine cluster = p_1, two machine cluster = probability of soft failure of 1 or 2 machines + probability of one machine

Re: the error

2010-03-31 Thread Ted Dunning
As I pointed out in my response, you should distinguish hard and soft failures. If one machine fails even catastrophically, you can provide a new machine to replace it, thus converting a hard failure into a soft one. The conclusion is the same. Three machines is vastly better than one or two.