[HADOOP-9106] Allow configuration of IPC connect timeout

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.0.0-alpha1
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.3-alpha
• Component/s: ipc
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed

Release Note

This jira introduces a new configuration parameter "ipc.client.connect.timeout". This configuration defines the Hadoop RPC connection timeout in milliseconds for a client to connect to a server. For details see the description associated with this configuration in core-default.xml.

• Assignee: Robert Parker
• Reporter: Todd Lipcon
• Created: 29/Nov/12 20:07
• Updated: 12/May/16 18:22
• Resolved: 15/Jan/13 23:59

Description

Currently the connection timeout in Client.setupConnection() is hard coded to 20seconds. This is unreasonable in some scenarios, such as HA failover, if we want a faster failover time. We should allow this to be configured per-client.

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: HADOOP-9149 During RPC, client will call the setupConnection() in the Client.java. We want that the connection time out can be configured int the core-site.xml
• is duplicated by: HADOOP-7397 Allow configurable timeouts when connecting to HDFS via java FileSystem API