[CASSANDRA-6338] Make gossip tolerate slow Gossip tasks

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.3
• Labels: gossip
• Severity: Low
• Assignee: Jonathan Ellis
• Reporter: Jonathan Ellis

Authors

Jonathan Ellis

Reviewers

Jason Brown

• Created: 12/Nov/13 23:38
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:32
• Resolved: 13/Nov/13 15:39

Description

Currently if a single gossip task bogs down the gossip Stage, Gossip will mark everyone down because it hasn't seen updates from them (since they are all queued behind the slow one).

This means that full GCs can cause gossip "flapping" as well as any actually problematic tasks such as recomputing pending ranges.

Issue Links

• is related to: CASSANDRA-6127 vnodes don't scale to hundreds of nodes