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Austin Shoemaker commented on ZOOKEEPER-131: -------------------------------------------- This patch appears to solve the problem for algorithm 0- our unit test completed successfully 16 times. > Old leader election can elect a dead leader over and over again > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: ZOOKEEPER-131 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-131 > Project: Zookeeper > Issue Type: Bug > Components: leaderElection > Reporter: Benjamin Reed > Assignee: Benjamin Reed > Attachments: ZOOKEEPER-131.patch > > > I think there is a race condition that is probably easy to get into with the > old leader election and a large number of servers: > 1) Leader dies > 2) Followers start looking for a new leader before all Followers have > abandoned the Leader > 3) The Followers looking for a new leader see votes of Followers still > following the (now dead) Leader and start voting for the dead Leader > 4) The dead Leader gets reelected. > For the old leader election a server should not vote for another server that > is not nominating himself. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.