Interestingly, the delay went away at the same time as node2 was brought back up.
2018-09-14 09:33:30,944 - INFO [QuorumPeer[myid=3]/0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:2181:FastLeaderElection@813] - New election. My id = 3, proposed zxid=0x600001f52 2018-09-14 09:33:30,945 - INFO [WorkerReceiver[myid=3]:FastLeaderElection@595] - Notification: 1 (message format version), 3 (n.leader), 0x600001f52 (n.zxid), 0x4e8 (n.round), LOOKING (n.state), 3 (n.sid), 0x6 (n.peerEpoch) LOOKING (my state) 2018-09-14 09:33:30,946 - INFO [WorkerReceiver[myid=3]:FastLeaderElection@595] - Notification: 1 (message format version), 1 (n.leader), 0x600001ee4 (n.zxid), 0x4e8 (n.round), LEADING (n.state), 1 (n.sid), 0x6 (n.peerEpoch) LOOKING (my state) 2018-09-14 09:33:30,947 - INFO [WorkerReceiver[myid=3]:FastLeaderElection@595] - Notification: 1 (message format version), 3 (n.leader), 0x600001f52 (n.zxid), 0x4e8 (n.round), LOOKING (n.state), 2 (n.sid), 0x6 (n.peerEpoch) LOOKING (my state) -----Original Message----- From: Andrew January [mailto:ajanu...@evertz.com] Sent: 14 September 2018 16:58 To: user@zookeeper.apache.org Subject: Issue electing leader, suspect delay in processing notifications I have a 3 node cluster on 3.4.12. One of the nodes (node 2) was taken down for maintenance. The remaining two nodes seem to have issues gaining quorum. I think the issues is that node 1 is taking 5 seconds to process notifications. >From the logs, node 1 and node 3 both agree that node 3 should be leader. Node 1 sends out it's notification that it's following node 3, then immediately tries to connect to it to follow. Because node 3 takes 5 seconds to pick up the notification that node 1 accepts it as leader, it isn't accepting connections to be followed. This means node 1 times out trying to connect to node 3 before node 3 becomes leader. Node 1 starts a new election. Node 3 times out waiting for acknowledgement that it's the leader. The process repeats. My evidence that node 1 is taking 5 seconds to process notifications is: 1) Node 3 starts a new election, which broadcasts a notification with a new round to itself and node 1 2) Node 1 gets the message almost immediately 3) Node 3 doesn't get its own message until 5 seconds later node3: 2018-09-14 09:28:50,534 - INFO [QuorumPeer[myid=3]/0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:2181:FastLeaderElection@813] - New election. My id = 3, proposed zxid=0x600001f52 node1: 2018-09-14 09:28:50,535 - INFO [WorkerReceiver[myid=1]:FastLeaderElection@595] - Notification: 1 (message format version), 3 (n.leader), 0x600001f52 (n.zxid), 0x4e0 (n.round), LOOKING (n.state), 3 (n.sid), 0x6 (n.peerEpoch) LOOKING (my state) node3: 2018-09-14 09:28:55,539 - INFO [WorkerReceiver[myid=3]:FastLeaderElection@595] - Notification: 1 (message format version), 3 (n.leader), 0x600001f52 (n.zxid), 0x4e0 (n.round), LOOKING (n.state), 3 (n.sid), 0x6 (n.peerEpoch) LOOKING (my state) node3: 2018-09-14 09:29:25,544 - INFO [QuorumPeer[myid=3]/0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:2181:FastLeaderElection@813] - New election. My id = 3, proposed zxid=0x600001f52 node1: 2018-09-14 09:29:25,546 - INFO [WorkerReceiver[myid=1]:FastLeaderElection@595] - Notification: 1 (message format version), 3 (n.leader), 0x600001f52 (n.zxid), 0x4e1 (n.round), LOOKING (n.state), 3 (n.sid), 0x6 (n.peerEpoch) LOOKING (my state) node3: 2018-09-14 09:29:30,547 - INFO [WorkerReceiver[myid=3]:FastLeaderElection@595] - Notification: 1 (message format version), 3 (n.leader), 0x600001f52 (n.zxid), 0x4e1 (n.round), LOOKING (n.state), 3 (n.sid), 0x6 (n.peerEpoch) LOOKING (my state) node3: 2018-09-14 09:30:00,772 - INFO [QuorumPeer[myid=3]/0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:2181:FastLeaderElection@813] - New election. My id = 3, proposed zxid=0x600001f52 node1: 2018-09-14 09:30:00,774 - INFO [WorkerReceiver[myid=1]:FastLeaderElection@595] - Notification: 1 (message format version), 3 (n.leader), 0x600001f52 (n.zxid), 0x4e2 (n.round), LOOKING (n.state), 3 (n.sid), 0x6 (n.peerEpoch) LOOKING (my state) node3: 2018-09-14 09:30:05,777 - INFO [WorkerReceiver[myid=3]:FastLeaderElection@595] - Notification: 1 (message format version), 3 (n.leader), 0x600001f52 (n.zxid), 0x4e2 (n.round), LOOKING (n.state), 3 (n.sid), 0x6 (n.peerEpoch) LOOKING (my state) Similarly, when node 1 tries to start an election: 1) Node 1 starts a new election, which has a new round 2) Node 1 gets the message almost immediately 3) Node 3 doesn't get the message until 5 seconds later node1: 2018-09-14 09:31:24,853 - INFO [QuorumPeer[myid=1]/0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:2181:FastLeaderElection@813] - New election. My id = 1, proposed zxid=0x600001ee4 node1: 2018-09-14 09:31:25,653 - INFO [WorkerReceiver[myid=1]:FastLeaderElection@595] - Notification: 1 (message format version), 1 (n.leader), 0x600001ee4 (n.zxid), 0x4e5 (n.round), LOOKING (n.state), 1 (n.sid), 0x6 (n.peerEpoch) LOOKING (my state) node3: 2018-09-14 09:31:30,654 - INFO [WorkerReceiver[myid=3]:FastLeaderElection@595] - Notification: 1 (message format version), 1 (n.leader), 0x600001ee4 (n.zxid), 0x4e5 (n.round), LOOKING (n.state), 1 (n.sid), 0x6 (n.peerEpoch) LEADING (my state) node1: 2018-09-14 09:32:00,072 - INFO [QuorumPeer[myid=1]/0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:2181:FastLeaderElection@813] - New election. My id = 1, proposed zxid=0x600001ee4 node1: 2018-09-14 09:32:00,680 - INFO [WorkerReceiver[myid=1]:FastLeaderElection@595] - Notification: 1 (message format version), 1 (n.leader), 0x600001ee4 (n.zxid), 0x4e6 (n.round), LOOKING (n.state), 1 (n.sid), 0x6 (n.peerEpoch) LOOKING (my state) node3: 2018-09-14 09:32:05,685 - INFO [WorkerReceiver[myid=3]:FastLeaderElection@595] - Notification: 1 (message format version), 1 (n.leader), 0x600001ee4 (n.zxid), 0x4e6 (n.round), LOOKING (n.state), 1 (n.sid), 0x6 (n.peerEpoch) LEADING (my state) I've looked through the code but I can't see any reason it would have a consistent 5 second delay when processing notifications. Any ideas? This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this e-mail in error please notify the sender (as shown above). 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