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Jason Rosenberg commented on KAFKA-1029:
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I'm starting to suspect my issue is actually due to network latency introduced
between the consumers and the zk servers, which is causing zk connection
timeouts and flapping. Thus, I think the issue is probably not related to the
original bug in this issue per se (it is having trouble with zk timeouts,
possibly resulting in consumer clients not seeing/updating a consistent view of
these ephemeral nodes? Does that make sense?
That being said, it still doesn't seem to make sense that an ephemeral node
would not ever get removed eventually. Also, perhaps the strange folksy error
log messaging in this case is assuming rather specific scenarios that don't
always apply, which could be more simplified here?
> Zookeeper leader election stuck in ephemeral node retry loop
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: KAFKA-1029
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1029
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: controller
> Affects Versions: 0.8.0
> Reporter: Sam Meder
> Assignee: Sam Meder
> Priority: Blocker
> Fix For: 0.8.0
>
> Attachments:
> 0002-KAFKA-1029-Use-brokerId-instead-of-leaderId-when-tri.patch
>
>
> We're seeing the following log statements (over and over):
> [2013-08-27 07:21:49,538] INFO conflict in /controller data: { "brokerid":3,
> "timestamp":"1377587945206", "version":1 } stored data: { "brokerid":2,
> "timestamp":"1377587460904", "version":1 } (kafka.utils.ZkUtils$)
> [2013-08-27 07:21:49,559] INFO I wrote this conflicted ephemeral node [{
> "brokerid":3, "timestamp":"1377587945206", "version":1 }] at /controller a
> while back in a different session, hence I will backoff for this node to be
> deleted by Zookeeper and retry (kafka.utils.ZkUtils$)
> where the broker is essentially stuck in the loop that is trying to deal with
> left-over ephemeral nodes. The code looks a bit racy to me. In particular:
> ZookeeperLeaderElector:
> def elect: Boolean = {
> controllerContext.zkClient.subscribeDataChanges(electionPath,
> leaderChangeListener)
> val timestamp = SystemTime.milliseconds.toString
> val electString = ...
> try {
>
> createEphemeralPathExpectConflictHandleZKBug(controllerContext.zkClient,
> electionPath, electString, leaderId,
> (controllerString : String, leaderId : Any) =>
> KafkaController.parseControllerId(controllerString) ==
> leaderId.asInstanceOf[Int],
> controllerContext.zkSessionTimeout)
> leaderChangeListener is registered before the create call (by the way, it
> looks like a new registration will be added every elect call - shouldn't it
> register in startup()?) so can update leaderId to the current leader before
> the call to create. If that happens then we will continuously get node exists
> exceptions and the checker function will always return true, i.e. we will
> never get out of the while(true) loop.
> I think the right fix here is to pass brokerId instead of leaderId when
> calling create, i.e.
> createEphemeralPathExpectConflictHandleZKBug(controllerContext.zkClient,
> electionPath, electString, brokerId,
> (controllerString : String, leaderId : Any) =>
> KafkaController.parseControllerId(controllerString) ==
> leaderId.asInstanceOf[Int],
> controllerContext.zkSessionTimeout)
> The loop dealing with the ephemeral node bug is now only triggered for the
> broker that owned the node previously, although I am still not 100% sure if
> that is sufficient.
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