We do set that Chad but it doesn't seem to help on some systems (especially bsd)...
Thanks mahadev On 4/29/10 11:22 AM, "Chad Harrington" <chad.harring...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Patrick Hunt <ph...@apache.org> wrote: > >> This is not foolproof however. We found that in general this would work, >> however there were some infrequent cases where a restarted server would fail >> to initialize due to the following issue: >> "it is possible for the process to complete before the kernel has released >> the associated network resource, and this port cannot be bound to another >> process until the kernel has decided that it is done." >> >> more detail here: >> http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~fine/Tech/addrinuse.html >> >> as a result we ended up changing the test code to start each test with new >> quorum/election port numbers. This fixed the problem for us but would not be >> a solution in your case. >> >> Patrick > > > I am not an expert at all on this, but I have used SO_REUSEADDR in other > situations to avoid the address in use problem. Would that help here? > > Chad Harrington > chad.harring...@gmail.com > >> >> >> On 04/29/2010 07:13 AM, Vishal K wrote: >> >>> Hi Ted, >>> >>> We want the application that embeds the ZK server to be running even after >>> the ZK server is shutdown. So we don't want to restart the application. >>> Also, we prefer not to use zkServer.sh/zkServer.cmd because these are OS >>> dependent (our application will run on Win as well as Linux). Instead, we >>> thought that calling QuorumPeerMain.initializeAndRun() and >>> QuorumPeerMain.shutdown() will suffice to start and shutdown a ZK server >>> and >>> we won't have to worry about checking the OS. >>> >>> Is there way to cleanly shutdown the ZK server (by invoking ZK server API) >>> when it is embedded in the application without actually restarting the >>> application process? >>> Thanks. >>> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 1:54 AM, Ted Dunning<ted.dunn...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Hmmm.... it isn't quite clear what you mean by restart without >>>> restarting. >>>> >>>> Why is killing the server and restarting it not an option? >>>> >>>> It is common to do a rolling restart on a ZK cluster. Just restart one >>>> server at a time. This is often used during system upgrades. >>>> >>>> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Vishal K<vishalm...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> What is a good way to restart a ZK server (standalone and quorum) >>>>> without >>>>> having to restart it? >>>>> >>>>> Currently, I have ZK server embedded in another java application. >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>