I guess that there're many open files open in the same time. What means that each event it's delivered some sink randomly.
2014-09-11 10:27 GMT+02:00 Guillermo Ortiz <konstt2...@gmail.com>: > I checked, you're right, is there more documentation about it somewhere? > How does it work? I mean, if I choose random, it choose randomly a sink > and when it finishes to generate a file and choose another sink or it send > each event for each sink and really there are many sink generating files > simultaneously? > > > 2014-09-11 3:08 GMT+02:00 Ashish <paliwalash...@gmail.com>: > >> IMHO, >> http://flume.apache.org/FlumeUserGuide.html#load-balancing-sink-processor >> explains it well. Failover Sink processor is used in case of failure event, >> but Load balancing Sink processor would be used to choose the Sink for >> sending Events. >> >> Can try this with a simple topology with two File Roll sinks, configured >> to use Load Balancing Sink Processor. >> >> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 9:22 PM, Guillermo Ortiz <konstt2...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I want to use the load balancer in Flume. After reading Flume >>> documentation about loading balancing I think that it's not really load >>> balacing, if I understood well, when a sink fail, it chooses a new sink >>> with ronud-robin or in a random way. But it doesn't distributed on this way >>> all the time among the differents sink. >>> >>> Is there any possiblity of distributed the load among all the sinks? >>> Because if I undertood well, the load balancing option doesn't do it. >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> thanks >> ashish >> >> Blog: http://www.ashishpaliwal.com/blog >> My Photo Galleries: http://www.pbase.com/ashishpaliwal >> > >
