HI Avinash, The zk client does itself maintain liveness information and also randomizes the list of servers to balance the number of clients connected to a single ZooKeeper server.
Hope that helps. Thanks mahadev On 4/27/10 10:56 AM, "Avinash Lakshman" <avinash.laksh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Let's assume I have 100 clients connecting to a cluster of 5 Zookeeper > servers over time. On the client side I instantiate a ZooKeeper instance and > use it whenever I need to read/write into ZK. Now I know I can pass in a > connect string with the list of all servers that make up the ZK cluster. > Does the ZK client automatically maintain liveness information and load > balance my connections across the machines? How can I do this effectively? I > basically want to spread the connections from the 100 clients to the 5 ZK > instances effectively. > > Thanks > Avinash
