Jason T. Greene wrote: > Bela Ban wrote: >> So it *does* throw an exception ? >> >> I didn't look in the code, but my TestNG errors on my Mac were >> caused by none of the members being able to provide initial state, >> and therefore the get() assertions after the 2nd node joined, failed. >> >> I would have expected an exception right ? I'll dig into this >> tomorrow again.. >> > > Moving this to the the dev list since Brian mentioned we are skipping > folks. > > Right, it *should* fail completely if no state transfer is successful (it throws a CacheException in RPCManagerImpl.start()). If it doesn't then it's a bug somewhere. It would take quite awhile for this to happen though. It loops through every server 5 times, and waits increasing amounts of time (2 ^ iteration seconds).