Github user HeartSaVioR commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/2241#discussion_r135995091 --- Diff: conf/defaults.yaml --- @@ -231,20 +234,35 @@ topology.multilang.serializer: "org.apache.storm.multilang.JsonSerializer" topology.shellbolt.max.pending: 100 topology.skip.missing.kryo.registrations: false topology.max.task.parallelism: null -topology.max.spout.pending: null +topology.max.spout.pending: 995 # Used in ACK mode only. Should be less than `topology.executor.receive.buffer.size` to avoid deadlocked cycles involving ACKer --- End diff -- We may want to flow ACK tuples and metrics tuples even backpressure is now in place, given that we treat them as the thing should be handled ASAP. Given that we have tuple timeout, delaying ACK tuples could make tuple being failed and retry even tuple tree is actually completed in worst case. I myself is also not 100% sure, and that's a hard thing to verify and consider so OK to file a follow-up issue if we agree on such issue.
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