This page: about Zookeeper error handling<http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/ZooKeeper/ErrorHandling>may help.
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 4:30 AM, Michael Bauland <michael.baul...@knipp.de>wrote: > Hello, > > I've got a question regarding the connectionloss exception thrown by Java. > I've got an ensemble running with three zk servers. If one of the three > servers is not running, the whole ensemble should still work (and it > does, so that's fine). But in this situation I experience quite often a > connectionloss exception and I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong > or if that's to be expected. > > My Code is rather simple: > I create a new connection to my ensemble using > > ZooKeeper zk = new ZooKeeper (connectString, timeOut, new MyWatcher ()); > > where connectString contains all three servers. Then I use the ZooKeeper > to read data from a certain path: > > zk.getData (path, false, null); > > This call quite often returns an exception like > > org.apache.zookeeper.KeeperException$ConnectionLossException: > KeeperErrorCode = ConnectionLoss for /125/170/test > > But according to your documentation, the connectionloss exception should > only occur in the following two cases: > > > 1. The application calls an operation on a session that is no longer > alive/valid > > This should not be the case, since I only just created the session. > > > 2. The ZooKeeper client disconnects from a server when there are > pending operations to that server, i.e., there is a pending asynchronous > call. > > The should also not be the case. I was just doing a read request and no > other client was accessing the ensemble. > > > My only idea is that maybe the connection call first tried to connect to > the zookeeper server that was not running (remember only two of the > three servers are running) and before it had a chance to try to connect > to one of the other servers, my getData call was made and failed with > connectionloss. Could that be the reason? > But I thought the connection handling was automatic and if a connection > failed the client would automatically try any of the other listed > servers without the user noticing!? > > Thanks for any help. > > Cheers, > > Michael > > > -- > Michael Bauland > michael.baul...@knipp.de > bauland.tel > -- Ted Dunning, CTO DeepDyve
