Dmitriy, I consulted with code of *GridDhtPartitionsExchangeFuture*: in its *init* method only server nodes are added to remaining set, so coordinator will never wait for clients in order to complete exchange.
So clients are not a problem here. -- Thanks, Sergey On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 8:45 PM Dmitriy Setrakyan <dsetrak...@apache.org> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 6:13 AM, Sergey Chugunov < > sergey.chugu...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Dmitriy, > > > > Answering to your questions: > > > > 1) policy applies only to servers as coordinator never waits for clients > in > > PME protocol; > > > > Sergey, to my knowledge, clients do participate in PME (although would be > interesting to find out why). This means that clients also can block and > freeze the cluster. Does your solution support automatic unblocking of > client nodes as well? > > D. >