[FLUME-2650] Sinkgroup round robin load balancer hits first sink repeatedly

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.5.0
• Component/s: Sinks+Sources

Environment

mapR flume v1.5

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Tim Chng
• Created: 24/Mar/15 18:45
• Updated: 26/Mar/15 18:36

Description

When a sinkgroup is configured with many sinks and the load balancer selector is set to round robin, the first sink received 10X more events than the other sinks in the sink group. When we changed the load balancer selector to random, than the events were balanced equally.