[HDFS-2682] HA: When a FailoverProxyProvider is used, Client should not retry for 45 times(hard coded value) if it is timing out to connect to server.

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: HA branch (HDFS-1623)
• Fix Version/s: HA branch (HDFS-1623)
• Component/s: ha, hdfs-client
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Uma Maheswara Rao G Assign to me
• Reporter: Uma Maheswara Rao G
• Created: 14/Dec/11 10:37
• Updated: 01/Feb/12 16:58
• Resolved: 19/Dec/11 21:49

Description

If Clients are getting SocketTimeoutException, when it is trying to connect to Server, it will retry for 45 times, to rethrow the exception to RetryPolicy.

I think we can make this 45 retry times to configurable and set it to lower value when FailoverProxyProvider is used.

Issue Links

• is blocked by: HADOOP-7932 HA : Make client connection retries on socket time outs configurable.