On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 6:57 AM, Jason Huang <jason.hu...@icare.com> wrote:
> 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? > Yeah, you could close the connection and connect when you need it; small setup cost but unlikely noticeable going you connect once a minute. Every 2-3 seconds sounds like the tickTime [1] config (2 seconds by default) which among other things is the zk 'heartbeat' interval. St.Ack 1. http://zookeeper.apache.org/doc/r3.2.2/zookeeperAdmin.html#sc_configuration
