Derek do you have an idea for a fix?

On Mar 20, 2014, at 3:43 PM, Derek Dagit <[email protected]> wrote:

>> As I said above, this fix is the most important in my opinion.
>> STORM-259 (Random#nextInt) is new to me -- can't say whether it's as
>> important as STORM-187 or not.
> 
> Yeah, we found it recently, and I created it this morning after reading 
> Taylor's mail.
> 
> STORM-187 can be a problem with fewer than 30 retries (likelihood depends on 
> configuration), but we will hit STORM-259 when retries exceeds 30.
> 
> -- 
> Derek
> 
> On 3/20/14, 14:18, Michael G. Noll wrote:
>> On my side the most important change is, as you point out, STORM-187.
>> The primary reason is like Adam Lewis is pointing out because it's a
>> stability problem.  The secondary aspect is that this issue taints the
>> new Netty backend, and at least IMHO the faster Storm could confidently
>> bury ZeroMQ the better. :-)
>> 
>> As I said above, this fix is the most important in my opinion.
>> STORM-259 (Random#nextInt) is new to me -- can't say whether it's as
>> important as STORM-187 or not.
>> 
>> Switching to my non-essential wishlist I'd also +1 STORM-252 (Upgrade
>> Curator and thus ZooKeeper to 3.4.5).  We have been running ZK 3.4.5
>> anyway for a couple of reasons, and it would be nice to have official
>> Storm support for the latest ZK version (ok, the recently released ZK
>> 3.4.6 is actually the latest but hey).  Although I don't know how
>> confident we are that the code in STORM-252 actually works, i.e. whether
>> integrating STORM-252 into 0.9.2 on such short notice would be jumping
>> the gun or a safe move.
>> 
>>   Btw, in terms of Storm/Kafka integration Kafka is in the same boat:
>> it's built against ZK 3.3.x, and LinkedIn recommends the use of ZK 3.3.4
>> in the docs.  There's an open ticket KAFKA-854 [1] that's basically the
>> equivalent of STORM-252, but I'm not sure how actively the Kafka team is
>> working on that.
>> 
>> Best,
>> Michael
>> 
>> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-854
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 03/20/2014 02:33 AM, P. Taylor Goetz wrote:
>>> I'd like to get this discussion started, largely because the "negative 
>>> timeout" bug (STORM-187) really bothers me. I've not seen it in the wild, 
>>> but I've heard of a few cases where it was enough to hinder upgrading.
>>> 
>>> HEAD looks good to me at the moment, with the major difference being the 
>>> zookeeper update and the patch mentioned above.
>>> 
>>> Any thoughts on other PRs or patches to include?
>>> 
>>> -Taylor
>> 

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