You are correct that this simpler recipe will work for smaller populations
and correct that the complications are to avoid the herd effect.
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Eric van Orsouw
<eric.van.ors...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi there,
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> I would like to use zookeeper to implement an election scheme.
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> There is a recipe on the homepage, but it is relatively complex.
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> I was wondering what was wrong with the following pseudo code;
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> forever {
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> zookeeper.create -e /election <my_ip_address>
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> if creation succeeded then {
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> // do the leader thing
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> } else {
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> // wait for change in /election using watcher mechanism
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> }
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> }
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> My assumption is that the recipe is more elaborate to the eliminate the
> flood of requests if the leader falls away.
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> But if there are only a handful of leader-candidates ,than that should not
> be a problem.
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> Is this correct, or am I missing out on something.
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> Thanks,
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> Eric
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