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The "ArchitectureGossip" page has been changed by JonathanEllis. http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/ArchitectureGossip?action=diff&rev1=2&rev2=3 -------------------------------------------------- = Gossiper = + + The gossiper is responsible for making sure every node in the system eventually knows important information about every other node's state, including those that are unreachable or not yet in the cluster when any given state change occurs. + + == API == + + Information to gossip is wrapped in an !ApplicationState object, which is essentially a key/value pair. (See "Data Structures" below for more detail.) The gossiper propagates these to other nodes, where interested classes subscribe to changes via the !IEndPointStateChangeSubscriber interface. This provides onJoin, onAlive, and onDead methods indicating the obvious things, and onChange for !ApplicationState changes. onChange is called once for each !ApplicationState. There are two non-obvious properties to this: + 1. If a node makes multiple changes to a given !ApplicationState key, other nodes are guaranteed to see the most recent one but not intermediate ones + 1. There is no provision for deleting an !ApplicationState entirely + + == Gossiper implementation == + Gossip timer task runs every second. During each of these runs the node initiates gossip exchange according to following rules: 1. Gossip to random live endpoint (if any)
