Hi James, Are you using the C or the Java client binding? What's the OS? I'm asking because there is an issue with the randomization of the connect string on Windows we found, but I haven't created a jira for it yet.
-Flavio On Friday, July 4, 2014 10:41 AM, James Mulcahy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >Hello, > >I run a 5 node ZooKeeper ensemble, with ~900 clients connected at a given >time. I’m noticing that at any one point in time, all the clients are >generally connected to the same ZooKeeper node. > >Looking back over the graphs I have which track this, there has only been one >brief period where one node didn’t have >90% of the clients; and during that >period, two nodes shared roughly 50% of the clients each. > >Is this expected behaviour? Is there anything I can do to tune this, to >encourage the clients to be more balanced? > >My expectation was that the clients would self-balance — I thought I’d read >that somewhere in the documentation, but I can’t find a reference for that now. > >Thanks in advance, > >—James > >
