> I don't know what a Fat Client is. Got from google.. http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cassandra/trunk/examples/client_only/README.txt http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/improved-hadoop-output
> And why are they removed automatically from gossip after FatClientTimeout which is half QUARANTINE_TIME? What's the concerns behind it? Dig into the code, the comment explain it. // half of QUARATINE_DELAY, to ensure justRemovedEndpoints has enough leeway to prevent re-gossip FatClientTimeout = (long)(QUARANTINE_DELAY / 2); On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Manu Zhang <owenzhang1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, I'm going through the Gossip codes of Cassandra-1.2-snapshot. > Since I started to follow Cassandra recently, I don't know what a Fat > Client is. And why are they removed automatically from gossip after > FatClientTimeout which is half QUARANTINE_TIME? What's the concerns behind > it? > > > Thanks. > > Manu Zhang >