Hi,

Unfortunately don't have a patch, though I think this is just 1 method that
needs to be added.  Don't think ELB provides the info needed, so one needs
to just have timeout.

Otis
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On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 4:25 PM, Hari Shreedharan <[email protected]
> wrote:

> I am not very familiar with ELB, but if you do have a patch that will make
> Flume work better - I’ll be glad to review it. I think the HDFS, HBase,
> Morphline, Solr, Thrift, and Avro sinks will need it (similar logic, but
> different impl).
>
>
>
>
> Thanks, Hari
>
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 9:27 AM, Ashish <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Does ELB provide any kind of status code when it rejects the request
> > or it just doesn't send any response?
> > Perhaps adding a JIRA would be great. Doesn't ELB times out connection
> > which are Idle for more than 60 sec?
> > thanks
> > ashish
> > On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 7:50 PM, Otis Gospodnetic
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I don't have a very good bug report, but I want to share one problem
> with
> >> Flume we observed the other day.  Specifically, with Elasticsearch Sink
> and
> >> AWS ELB, but others may have this problem, too.
> >>
> >> In short, ELB has this notion of a Spillover where it can reject
> requests
> >> when it can't handle the load.  Unfortunately, it doesn't actually
> signal
> >> this by closing the connection, so Flume's connection remains open, I
> >> believe in some java.net....... readSocket(....) method.
> >>
> >> To work around this we had to add a socket timeout in our custom
> version of
> >> Flume's Elasticsearch Sink.
> >>
> >> I think it's worth fixing this in Flume and checking if other Sinks need
> >> this sort of timeout.
> >>
> >> HTH
> >>
> >> Otis
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