Simplify failure detection and merge timeout configuration ---------------------------------------------------------- Key: JGRP-1902 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JGRP-1902 Project: JGroups Issue Type: Enhancement Affects Versions: 3.6 Reporter: Dan Berindei Assignee: Bela Ban Priority: Minor Fix For: 3.6.1, 4.0 FD/FD_ALL/FD_ALL2/FD_SOCK javadoc doesn't give any guidance as to how long it would take to detect a leaving member. MERGE2/MERGE3 javadoc also doesn't say how much it would take to detect that the network has healed. For an example of how misleading the current settings can be, I have seen MERGE3 take more than 20s to merge two partitions with min_interval=1000 and max_interval=5000. FD also detects a leaver after {{timeout * max_tries}} in the best case, and twice that if 2 consecutive nodes (in the members list) leave at the same time. The maximum time it takes to detect a leaver is of particular interest to Infinispan users, because Infinispan is supposed to protect against nodes leaving. But if the users don't configure a high enough RPC timeout in Infinispan, we don't get to detect the node leaving. Ideally, the user should be able to specify a maximum detection time, and the protocol should adjust the existing settings to meet that (most of the time).