Re: Fast leader election initial delay, is that possible?

[Flavio Junqueira]

Hi Sampath, When a server starts it tries to contact the others immediately; it backs off if it gets no response.  It is true that it is unlikely that servers will start at the same time and you'll get such warnings. However, I don't really see the point of setting such a configuration parameter. It is really difficult to estimate how much time is sufficient, so most likely you'll end up getting the warning anyway if you make an aggressive estimate or will wait more than necessary if you make a conservative estimate. -Flavio On Aug 18, 2011, at 5:40 AM, Sampath Perera wrote: Hi, We have a deployment of a 3 node ZooKeeper quorum. When we get to starting the 3 ZooKeeper nodes the first node getting started prints the following connection refused exception, which is true as the node 2 and 3 are yet to be started. This seems to be because of the FastLeaderElection trying to connect to the other nodes specified in the quorum. So my question is whether it is possible to configure an initial delay for the FastLeaderElection to be kicked off? The rationale being that it is highly unlikely that all 3 nodes started at the same time, even in the case where we try to command the startups at the same time, and we could get rid of this stacktrace from the logs, as this will trigger warning on the tools that are monitoring the logs, yet is not actually a WARN rather an expected error. 2011-08-18 08:53:15,530 [-] [WorkerSender Thread]  WARN QuorumCnxManager Cannot open channel to 2 at election address localhost/127.0.0.1:3888 java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused    at sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.checkConnect(Native Method)    at sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.finishConnect(SocketChannelImpl.java:567)    at sun.nio.ch.SocketAdaptor.connect(SocketAdaptor.java:100)    at org.apache.zookeeper.server.quorum.QuorumCnxManager.connectOne(QuorumCnxManager.java:371)    at org.apache.zookeeper.server.quorum.QuorumCnxManager.toSend(QuorumCnxManager.java:340)    at org.apache.zookeeper.server.quorum.FastLeaderElection$Messenger$WorkerSender.process(FastLeaderElection.java:360)    at org.apache.zookeeper.server.quorum.FastLeaderElection$Messenger$WorkerSender.run(FastLeaderElection.java:333)    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662) 2011-08-18 08:53:15,532 [-] [WorkerSender Thread]  WARN QuorumCnxManager Cannot open channel to 3 at election address localhost/127.0.0.1:3889 java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused    at sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.checkConnect(Native Method)    at sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.finishConnect(SocketChannelImpl.java:567)    at sun.nio.ch.SocketAdaptor.connect(SocketAdaptor.java:100)    at org.apache.zookeeper.server.quorum.QuorumCnxManager.connectOne(QuorumCnxManager.java:371)    at org.apache.zookeeper.server.quorum.QuorumCnxManager.toSend(QuorumCnxManager.java:340)    at org.apache.zookeeper.server.quorum.FastLeaderElection$Messenger$WorkerSender.process(FastLeaderElection.java:360)    at org.apache.zookeeper.server.quorum.FastLeaderElection$Messenger$WorkerSender.run(FastLeaderElection.java:333)    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662) -- Thanks, Sampath http://adroitlogic.org flavio junqueira   research scientist   f...@yahoo-inc.com direct +34 93-183-8828   avinguda diagonal 177, 8th floor, barcelona, 08018, es phone (408) 349 3300    fax (408) 349 3301