Executors/tasks will keep running when the master is down. Any status updates sent by executors will be cached by the slaves and retried upon a new master being elected as leader.
-- Vinod On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Andy Grove <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to clarify how master failures are handled. Do executors and > tasks continue operating while the master is down? > > For example, if I have 3 master nodes and my scheduler causes a mysql > server to start on a slave and then the leader master fails, will mysql > keep running through this failure? > > I read an article that said the slave stops all running tasks in the event > of a master failure, but I can't find that article now, and other articles > indicate otherwise. I couldn't find a conclusive answer in the mesos docs > either. > > Thanks, > > Andy. > > -- > Andy Grove > VP Engineering > CodeFutures Corporation > > >
