Ryan,

Regarding NIFI-9236 the JIRA captures it well but sounds like there is
now a better understanding of how it works and what options exist to
better view details.

Regarding Load Balancing: NIFI-7081 is largely about the scenario
whereby in load balancing cases nodes which are slower effectively set
the rate the whole cluster can sustain because we don't have a fluid
load balancing strategy which we should.  Such a strategy would allow
for the fastest nodes to always take the most data.  We just need to
do that work.  No ETA.

Thanks

On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 2:18 PM Ryan Hendrickson
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Joe - We're testing some scenarios.  Andrew captured some confusing behavior 
> in the UI when enabling and disabling load balancing on a relationship: 
> "Update UI for Clustered Connections" -- 
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/NIFI/issues/NIFI-9236
>
> Question - When a FlowFile is Load Balanced from one node to another, is the 
> entire Content Claim load balanced?  Or just the small portion necessary?
>
> Mike -
> We found two tickets that are in the ballpark:
>
> 1.  Improve handling of Load Balanced Connections when one node is slow   --  
>   https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-7081
> 2.  NiFi FlowFiles stuck in queue when using Single Node load balance 
> strategy   --    https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-8970
>
> From @Simon comment - we know we've seen underperforming nodes in a cluster 
> before.  We're discussing @Simon's comment is applicable to the issue we're 
> seeing
>           > "The one thing I can think of is the scenario where one (or more) 
> nodes are significantly slower than the other ones. In these cases it might 
> happen then the nodes are “running behind” blocks the other nodes from 
> balancing perspective."
>
> @Simon - I'd like to understand the "blocks other nodes from balancing 
> perspective" better if you have additional information.  We're trying to 
> replicate this scenario.
>
> Thanks,
> Ryan
>
> On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 3:45 PM Mike Thomsen <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > there is a ticket to overcome this (there is no ETA),
>>
>> Do you know what the Jira # is?
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 6, 2021 at 7:14 AM Simon Bence <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi Mike,
>> >
>> > I did a quick check on the round robin balancing and based on what I found 
>> > the reason for the issue must lie somewhere else, not directly within it. 
>> > The one thing I can think of is the scenario where one (or more) nodes are 
>> > significantly slower than the other ones. In these cases it might happen 
>> > then the nodes are “running behind” blocks the other nodes from balancing 
>> > perspective.
>> >
>> > Based on what you wrote this is a possible reason and there is a ticket to 
>> > overcome this (there is no ETA), but other details might shed light to a 
>> > different root cause.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Bence
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > > On 2021. Sep 3., at 14:13, Mike Thomsen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > We have a 5 node cluster, and sometimes I've noticed that round robin
>> > > load balancing stops sending flowfiles to two of them, and sometimes
>> > > toward the end of the data processing can get as low as a single node.
>> > > Has anyone seen similar behavior?
>> > >
>> > > Thanks,
>> > >
>> > > Mike
>> >

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