[CASSANDRA-9237] Gossip messages subject to head of line blocking by other intra-cluster traffic

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.2.1, 3.0 beta 1
• Component/s: Legacy/Streaming and Messaging
• Assignee: Ariel Weisberg
• Reporter: Ariel Weisberg

Authors

Ariel Weisberg

Reviewers

Jason Brown

• Created: 24/Apr/15 16:53
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:31
• Resolved: 13/Aug/15 12:43

Description

Reported as an issue over less than perfect networks like VPNs between data centers.

Gossip goes over the small message socket where small is 64k which isn't particularly small. This is done for performance to keep most traffic on one hot socket.

Issue Links

• is blocked by: CASSANDRA-9256 Refactor MessagingService to support pluggable transports