Github user clockfly commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/268#issuecomment-60863620
Hi Ted,
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This will still cause another worker crash.
Now there are two things happen in parallel, first nimbus inform worker A
that worker B is not alive by zk timeout, second worker A connect to worker B
by netty. When worker B died for some reason, we can't guarantee which happen
first, if the connection from worker A to worker B broken first, then client's
status will became closing, but right now nimbus has't inform worker A that
worker has died, then worker A will still send message to worker B, the
Exception will throw and what STORM-404 describe will happen.
```
Suppose worker A send msg to worker B.
If B dies, At A, it will have multiple reconnection try. A will get
notified that B is dead, and will set closing flag of Client(to B), which will
abort the reconnection process, no RuntimeException will be thrown.
If there is a network partitioning issue, suppose worker A is isolated from
the rest of the cluster. A will not get notified that B is not alive. Then A
will continue to retry reconnection to B for multiple times, and throw
RuntimeException, and exit eventually. In this case, A cannot recover, throw is
best option.
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