[Hawkular-dev] Metrics: Cassandra Driver timeouts during the build

[Peter Palaga]

Hi *,

Short version: doubling the read timeouts [1] for all three uses of 
Cassandra Driver solved the problem for me. Is this a good idea? Can 
anybody see a better solution to my problem?


Long version:

https://issues.jboss.org/browse/HWKMETRICS-404

As some of you already know from my complaints on IRC, I have not been 
able to build Metrics since a couple of weeks.

My builds failed mostly on core-services but sometimes also in 
configuration-service and resr-tests-jaxrs, the error always being the same:

com.datastax.driver.core.exceptions.NoHostAvailableException: All 
host(s) tried for query failed (tried: /127.0.0.1:9042 
(com.datastax.driver.core.exceptions.OperationTimedOutException: 
[/127.0.0.1] Timed out waiting for server response))

The whole build log: http://paste.fedoraproject.org/372623/46116551/

This started happening at some point after my PR 
https://github.com/hawkular/hawkular-metrics/pull/478 was merged. I do 
not say this PR is the cause, this is just an attempt to narrow down the 
set of commits that might have introduced the problem.

As nobody else (incl. Travis) complained about anything similar, I was 
thinking the issue must be somewhere in my environment. I double checked 
I use the right Cassandra version, ulimits, Java version, Maven version, 
system updates, but nothing helped.

Then I tried doubling the read timeouts [1] for all three uses of 
Cassandra Driver and the build started passing again. Is this a good 
idea? Can anybody see a better solution to my problem?

[1] https://github.com/hawkular/hawkular-metrics/pull/510