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Benjamin Reed commented on ZOOKEEPER-366:
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after discussion this on the list, we realized that we can detect a big jump in
time change in the session expiration thread. since we expire a bucket of
sessions each tick, if we run into the situation where we are going to expire
more than one bucket in a row, we know we have jumped forward in time. we can
"smooth" the jump by requiring at least a 1/2 ticktime wait between each
bucket.
> Session timeout detection can go wrong if the leader system time changes
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> Key: ZOOKEEPER-366
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-366
> Project: Zookeeper
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Benjamin Reed
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> the leader tracks session expirations by calculating when a session will
> timeout and then periodically checking to see what needs to be timed out
> based on the current time. this works great as long as the leaders clock
> progresses at a steady pace. the problem comes when there are big (session
> size) changes in clock, by ntp for example. if time gets adjusted forward,
> all the sessions could timeout immediately. if time goes backward sessions
> that should timeout may take a lot longer to actually expire.
> this is really just a leader issue. the easiest way to deal with this is to
> have the leader relinquish leadership if it detects a big jump forward in
> time. when a new leader gets elected, it will recalculate timeouts of active
> sessions.
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