[HBASE-25562] ReplicationSourceWALReader log and handle exception immediately without retrying

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.0.0-alpha-1, 2.2.6, 2.3.4, 2.4.1
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0-alpha-1, 2.3.5, 2.4.3
• Component/s: Replication
• Assignee: Sun Xin
• Reporter: Sun Xin
• Created: 09/Feb/21 07:14
• Updated: 25/Mar/21 23:28
• Resolved: 25/Mar/21 06:18

Description

In this piece of code about retrying in ReplicationSourceWALReader#run, sleep time increases with the number of retries, if an exception happens that cannot be recovered by itself, error logs will appear after 12 hours (300 retries by default).

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #2943
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #2966