Github user tillrohrmann commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2696
Thanks for the review @StephanEwen. Yes let's do it as you've proposed.
I've opened an [issue](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-4944) for
replacing Akka's death watch with our own heartbeat on the `TaskManager` side.
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