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Jordan Zimmerman updated CURATOR-187:
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Assignee: Cameron McKenzie (was: Jordan Zimmerman)
> ChildReaper does not respect built in leader election
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> Key: CURATOR-187
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CURATOR-187
> Project: Apache Curator
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: David Kesler
> Assignee: Cameron McKenzie
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> ChildReaper has built in leader election, but ChildReaper itself doesn't
> actually respect it. It merely passes it along to the Reaper. This means
> that the child reaper will continue to watch its path and add nodes that need
> to be reaped into the reaper's queue, despite the reaper (potentially) not
> being active.
> This has two negative effects:
> 1) It creates a memory leak as the child reaper will continuously add paths
> to the reaper's list of activePaths without the reaper having any mechanism
> for removing them from its list.
> 2) It creates a backlog of paths so that if the reaper ever does become
> leader it needs to churn through all the nodes that have been added to its
> queue since it started (or lost leadership). In a high enough volume
> scenario, this can result in a substantial delay before the reaper begins
> successfully processing paths that still exist and need to be reaped.
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