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ASF GitHub Bot commented on STORM-329:
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Github user clockfly commented on the pull request:

    https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/268#issuecomment-59317470
  
    Hi Ted,
    
    You are trying to achive three things:
    1. When a worker is down, we don't want the upstream worker to fail in a 
chaining manner.
    2. When some connection is unavailable, we don't want other connection to 
wait for this connection.
    3. When the message come too fast, we need to strategy to handle it. 
Whether drop it, or cache it. Seems your timecachemap is used for this purpose.
    
    We better split these to small patches, and solve 1 and 2 in this patch. I 
will work with you and contribute on this pull request.


> Add Option to Config Message handling strategy when connection timeout
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: STORM-329
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STORM-329
>             Project: Apache Storm
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>    Affects Versions: 0.9.2-incubating
>            Reporter: Sean Zhong
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: Netty
>             Fix For: 0.9.2-incubating
>
>
> This is to address a [concern brought 
> up|https://github.com/apache/incubator-storm/pull/103#issuecomment-43632986] 
> during the work at STORM-297:
> {quote}
> [~revans2] wrote: Your logic makes since to me on why these calls are 
> blocking. My biggest concern around the blocking is in the case of a worker 
> crashing. If a single worker crashes this can block the entire topology from 
> executing until that worker comes back up. In some cases I can see that being 
> something that you would want. In other cases I can see speed being the 
> primary concern and some users would like to get partial data fast, rather 
> then accurate data later.
> Could we make it configurable on a follow up JIRA where we can have a max 
> limit to the buffering that is allowed, before we block, or throw data away 
> (which is what zeromq does)?
> {quote}
> If some worker crash suddenly, how to handle the message which was supposed 
> to be delivered to the worker?
> 1. Should we buffer all message infinitely?
> 2. Should we block the message sending until the connection is resumed?
> 3. Should we config a buffer limit, try to buffer the message first, if the 
> limit is met, then block?
> 4. Should we neither block, nor buffer too much, but choose to drop the 
> messages, and use the built-in storm failover mechanism? 



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