Source code is best bet. A little more detail is part of the book http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920030348.do, see chapter 6, Sink Groups and Sink Processor section
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Guillermo Ortiz <[email protected]> wrote: > Any documentation or more details of how works?? > > 2014-09-11 13:53 GMT+02:00 Guillermo Ortiz <[email protected]>: > >> I guess that there're many open files open in the same time. What means >> that each event it's delivered some sink randomly. >> >> 2014-09-11 10:27 GMT+02:00 Guillermo Ortiz <[email protected]>: >> >>> I checked, you're right, is there more documentation about it somewhere? >>> How does it work? I mean, if I choose random, it choose randomly a sink >>> and when it finishes to generate a file and choose another sink or it send >>> each event for each sink and really there are many sink generating files >>> simultaneously? >>> >>> >>> 2014-09-11 3:08 GMT+02:00 Ashish <[email protected]>: >>> >>>> IMHO, >>>> http://flume.apache.org/FlumeUserGuide.html#load-balancing-sink-processor >>>> explains it well. Failover Sink processor is used in case of failure event, >>>> but Load balancing Sink processor would be used to choose the Sink for >>>> sending Events. >>>> >>>> Can try this with a simple topology with two File Roll sinks, >>>> configured to use Load Balancing Sink Processor. >>>> >>>> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 9:22 PM, Guillermo Ortiz <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I want to use the load balancer in Flume. After reading Flume >>>>> documentation about loading balancing I think that it's not really load >>>>> balacing, if I understood well, when a sink fail, it chooses a new sink >>>>> with ronud-robin or in a random way. But it doesn't distributed on this >>>>> way >>>>> all the time among the differents sink. >>>>> >>>>> Is there any possiblity of distributed the load among all the sinks? >>>>> Because if I undertood well, the load balancing option doesn't do it. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> thanks >>>> ashish >>>> >>>> Blog: http://www.ashishpaliwal.com/blog >>>> My Photo Galleries: http://www.pbase.com/ashishpaliwal >>>> >>> >>> >> > -- thanks ashish Blog: http://www.ashishpaliwal.com/blog My Photo Galleries: http://www.pbase.com/ashishpaliwal
