David, did you see Vinod's response to your (identical) question on dev@? http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg11634.html
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 11:26 AM, David Greenberg <[email protected]>wrote: > I don't recall the exact timeout of framework IDs, but what I'm wondering > is what happens if a scheduler tries to "failover", but the failover grace > period has elapsed? Does it fail to register, or does it successfully > register and all the old executors are just gone? > >

