Hi Amanda, You can turn off the acking feature of Storm (which guarantees every tuple will be processed) by setting topology.acker.executors to 0 in the config. You can completely control how Nimbus assigns tasks by implementing your own scheduler using the IScheduler interface.
-Nathan On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 5:11 PM, Amanda C <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello! > > I am a National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates > (NSF REU) student. I conduct research for the Distributed Systems Group at > Colorado State University. My current research involves fault tolerance in > Storm. > > My advisor has tasked me with developing a fault tolerance scheme to run > on top of Storm and compare it with the current scheme during stateless > processing. > > Unfortunately, I have not been able to find any information as to how to > "turn off" the fault tolerance features of Storm. On the storm > documentation page, it states that Nimbus will move workers and tasks away > for failing nodes or machines, is there any way to turn this off so I can > implement my own scheme? > > Thanks for your time and help! > > ~ Amanda Carbonari > -- Twitter: @nathanmarz http://nathanmarz.com
