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On Sep 10, 2016 5:09 PM, "Patrik Nordwall" <patrik.nordw...@gmail.com>
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> Are you aware of the importance of the first seed node, the one you have
> listed as first element in sees-nodes list? See documentation.
>
> You can get decent behavior if you wait with joining until the list of
> discovered nodes stabilize, i.e. not changing within X seconds. Then sort
> them to make sure the same is used as the first from all places. Then
> joinSeedNodes with that sorted list.
>
> To be completely safe you must manually decide which one to use as the
> first seed node.
>
> /Patrik
>
> fre 9 sep. 2016 kl. 20:32 skrev kraythe <kray...@gmail.com>:
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> We are having some problems with our cluster configuration that manifest
>> themselves in the following log lines (redacted for confidentiality
>> reasons.
>>
>> Sep 09 00:58:10 host1.mycompany.com application-9001.log:  2016-09-09 05:
>> 58:10 +0000 - [WARN] - [OrdersActor] akka://myCompany/user/OrdersActor/291
>> -  (291) #recordTxns, sending 54 txns to UserActor took 0.0044229 seconds
>> Sep 09 00:58:19 host1.mycompany.com application-9001.log:  2016-09-09 05:
>> 58:19 +0000 - [WARN] - [ShardRegion] akka.tcp://myCompany@10.8.1.
>> 169:2551/system/sharding/UserActor -  Trying to register to coordinator
>> at [None], but no acknowledgement. Total [54] buffered messages.
>>
>> I have traced this to the configuration of the cluster. We are running
>> this on Amazon AWS and the code includes use of Hazelcast for finding the
>> IPs of the other nodes (mostly because we have solved discovery for
>> hazelcast in our dynamic IP cluster). We retrieve the IPs of the other
>> nodes in the cluster from hazelcast and appropriately use them to create
>> the Address object to use in the seed node. Once we have the seed nodes we
>> have tried two mechanisms. First is to take the list of seed nodes and use
>> them to join the cluster with cluster.joinSeedNodes(). Of Course not all
>> machines come up and are discovered by hazelcast at exactly the same
>> instant so the first 3 nodes might come up first and use each other to join
>> whereas by the time the 9th node comes up there are 9 seed nodes. When we
>> start sending messages to cluster shared actors, we get the errors above.
>> Also when a node goes down the system screams constantly that a seed node
>> is gone. So I changed the code to pick a node at random and do a
>> cluster.join() with that node instead. However, we have the same problem
>> as above. However, when we first bring up one node then bring them up one
>> at a time, the problem goes away. Another symptom is that if we have the
>> problem above and we terminate host1 then other nodes start propagating
>> this behavior. Probably all the other nodes that were connected to host1.
>> Apparently they can't heal to connect to another node. So this lends
>> evidence to the multiple split brains theory.
>>
>> My theory is that by using all these seed nodes I am creating multiple
>> split brains. So if you have 5 nodes, A, B, C, D, E and A connects to B, B
>> to A, C to E, E to D, D to E then we have two clusters running that know
>> nothing about each other. For some reason then the coordinators get
>> confused about what is going on.
>>
>> Essentially the problem domain is this: 1. We don't know what ANY of the
>> IPs are ahead of time. 2) We want the cluster to be whole. 3) If a single
>> node leaves the cluster we would like the remaining nodes to recover.
>>
>> I would appreciate any insight anyone could provide on this and
>> especially what may be the problem (I could be wrong), and how we can
>> accomplish our goals. Note that I am not committed to using hazelcast to
>> find other nodes.
>>
>>  Thanks in advance.
>>
>>
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