[FLINK-8644] Shut down AkkaRpcActors with PoisonPill

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.5.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.0
• Component/s: Runtime / Coordination
• Labels: flip-6
• Assignee: Till Rohrmann
• Reporter: Till Rohrmann
• Created: 13/Feb/18 13:31
• Updated: 15/Feb/18 10:44
• Resolved: 15/Feb/18 10:44

Description

In order to ensure that all messages get processed before shutting down an AkkaRpcActor we should stop it by sending a PoisonPill. Otherwise we risk that we have some dangling futures which will time out.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #5476