Re: stop script not working

2010-01-28 Thread Michael Bauland
Hi Patrick, thank you very much for you quick reply. With your help I found the problem. The variable $ZOOPIDFILE in the zkServer.sh script containted the following (weird) string: /zookeeper_server.pidver1/data And this of course doesn't work. The problem was that in the zoo.cfg file I had

Re: Q about ZK internal: how commit is being remembered

2010-01-28 Thread Benjamin Reed
henry is correct. just to state another way, Zab guarantees that if a quorum of servers have accepted a transaction, the transaction will commit. this means that if less than a quorum of servers have accepted a transaction, we can commit or discard. the only constraint we have in choosing is

Dependency on JBoss JMX

2010-01-28 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
Hello there, Is the dependency on JBoss a hard one, or is there a way to not use it? Perhaps an alternative package providing the same interface? I'm trying to get it included in Ubuntu and being asked about this. Thanks in advance, -- Gustavo Niemeyer http://niemeyer.net

Re: Dependency on JBoss JMX

2010-01-28 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
there aren't any dependencies on jboss. can you clarify the dependency that you are seeing? Sorry, that was JBoss JMX, more specifically, and I actually don't see it being used explicitly either. Probably an indirect dependency. I'll check back with Matthias Klose, who's doing the favor of

Re: Q about ZK internal: how commit is being remembered

2010-01-28 Thread Qian Ye
Thanks henry and ben, actually I have read the paper henry mentioned in this mail, but I'm still not so clear with some of the details. Anyway, maybe more study on the source code can help me understanding. Since Ben said that, if less than a quorum of servers have accepted a transaction, we can

Re: Q about ZK internal: how commit is being remembered

2010-01-28 Thread Mahadev Konar
Qian, ZooKeeper gurantees that if a client sees some transaction response, then it will persist but the one's that a client does not see might be discarded or committed. So in case a quorum does not log the transaction, there might be a case wherein a zookeeper server which does not have the

Re: Q about ZK internal: how commit is being remembered

2010-01-28 Thread Qing Yan
Hi Qian Ye, Could you forward me a copy of the paper? I don't have ACM access...duo xie! btw, I was a ZJUer too.. cheers, Qing On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Qian Ye yeqian@gmail.com wrote: Thanks henry and ben, actually I have read the paper henry mentioned in this mail, but

Re: Q about ZK internal: how commit is being remembered

2010-01-28 Thread Qian Ye
Thanks Mahadev, I see what you mean. On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Mahadev Konar maha...@yahoo-inc.comwrote: Qian, ZooKeeper gurantees that if a client sees some transaction response, then it will persist but the one's that a client does not see might be discarded or committed. So in

Re: Q about ZK internal: how commit is being remembered

2010-01-28 Thread Ted Dunning
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