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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:40:34 -0700
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Subject: Re: Zookeeper client
From: Avinash Lakshman <avinash.lakshman@gmail.com>
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Thanks Mahadev. Does this happen irrespective of what I provide in the
connect string? Let's say I have servers A, B, C, D and E in the ZK cluster.
But all my clients instantiate ZooKeeper instances by providing information
only about A. Does the randomization occur even in this case?

Thanks
Avinash

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mahadev Konar <mahadev@yahoo-inc.com>wrote:

> HI Avinash,
>  The zk client does itself maintain liveness information and also
> randomizes the list of servers to balance the number of clients connected
> to
> a single ZooKeeper server.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Thanks
> mahadev
>
>
> On 4/27/10 10:56 AM, "Avinash Lakshman" <avinash.lakshman@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Let's assume I have 100 clients connecting to a cluster of 5 Zookeeper
> > servers over time. On the client side I instantiate a ZooKeeper instance
> and
> > use it whenever I need to read/write into ZK. Now I know I can pass in a
> > connect string with the list of all servers that make up the ZK cluster.
> > Does the ZK client automatically maintain liveness information and load
> > balance my connections across the machines? How can I do this
> effectively? I
> > basically want to spread the connections from the 100 clients to the 5 ZK
> > instances effectively.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Avinash
>
>

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