Not sure if I should post this to the zookeeper list or here but I will try here first for my luck.
The application that I am working on runs a small HBase cluster (0.94.3) with an external zookeeper(3.4.4). Within the java client, when we invoke the first call to fetch data from HBase table, a connection has been established with zookeeper. After that, ever 2-3 seconds, we've found an attempt from our java client to connect to zookeeper and the connection quickly disconnect itself afterwards. This sounds like a "heartbeat" to keep connection alive with zookeeper. My question is - is this kind of "heartbeat" expected and useful? Our normal use case involves fetching data to HBase table every 60 seconds or so. Could we stop that heartbeat and re-connect to zookeeper on the fly only when we need to read from HBase? thanks! Jason
