[jboss-dev] Clustering bootstrap still taking a long time

[Vladimir Blagojevic]

Noted Brian. We over engineered FLUSH in 2.5 release and in 2.6 release 
which is due next week these kind of issues should not happen.
I'll try AS-HEAD with JGroups HEAD before ship it as 2.6.

Brian Stansberry wrote:
> Is your server bound to your VPN interface?
>
> > GMS: address is 10.11.14.31:32796
>
> This sounds very similar to what the dev90 machine was experiencing 
> when  doing hudson testsuite runs. There, multicast wasn't working 
> properly on the bound interface. FLUSH counts on getting back a 
> response to its own multicast, which it would never get.  So, every 
> startFlush would hang for timeout * retries.
>
> This gives me a chance to bring up something with the JGroups guys:
>
> The behavior we see when FLUSH fails seems not so great -- long delay 
> and then a WARN.  At least in some cases, like initial channel 
> connection, it would be better if it the connect() just failed.  The 
> channel is not usable.