[zeromq-dev] Zyre evasive events discussion

[Brett Viren]

Hi,

Arnaud Loonstra <arnaud at sphaero.org> writes:

> The other way to analyse the problem is to check how EVASIVE is used at 
> the moment... and maybe if it used at all. My experience is that since 
> its introduction in a stable version, not once was is useful in 
> real-world cases for me.`

Initially I thought EVASIVE was some magic way to determine that the
overall application was "misbehaving" (hung/looping).  After the obvious
realization that the Zyre node has no general way to determine what is
going on in other threads it was not clear what the point of EVASIVE
was.  I hadn't thought about having a peer follow up with a PING but
that also only tests that the Zyre actor is alive.

I still hope to find some kind of dead-man switch and would like it to
be done through Zyre since it's ENTER/EXIT are so related.

Ideally, we might add a new API message, eg "ALIVE", which only serves
to reset the evasive timeout.

My application could do some Zyre chatting just for the side-effect of
refreshing the evasive timeout.  But, I don't have any need for the
resulting chat messages.  Maybe I can have the Zyre node WHISPER to
itself?

-Brett.
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