[GEODE-7357] membership-timeout documentation is incorrect

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.11.0
• Component/s: docs, membership
• Assignee: Dan Smith
• Reporter: Dan Smith
• Created: 24/Oct/19 23:07
• Updated: 30/Dec/19 18:49
• Resolved: 25/Oct/19 22:28

Description

The description for membership-timeout on https://geode.apache.org/docs/guide/110/reference/topics/gemfire_properties.html is incorrect.

It describes the member-timeout behavior of an old version of the product, before geode 1.0.

Based on this description, a user might assume that an unresponsive member will be kicked out of the system only after 3*member-timeout milliseconds have elapsed. That may have been true before geode 1.0, but the geode has a different failure detection algorithm which will remove members after a minimum of 2*member-timeout milliseconds

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #4224