- Transports no longer uses raw ActorRefs as listeners but proper interfaces.
- Added managementCommand support to Transports
- Added support for dynamically loadable transport adapters
- Added throttler/failure injector transport adapter
- added actor based adapter support
- Changed configuration method of multiple transports - Fixed tests to work with the new remoting
* case object and case class for MixMetricsSelector
* Rename decay-half-life-duration to moving-average-half-life
* Clarification of decay-half-life-duration and collect-interval
* Removed Fields, Java compatibility issue
* Adapt for-yield variables
* Comment metrics collector constructor that takes system param
* Don't copy EWMA if not needed
* LogOf2 constant 0.69315
* Don't use mapValues
* Remove RichInt conversion
* sigar version replace tag in docs
* createDeployer factory method to make it possible to override
deployer in subclass
* Improve readability of MetricsListener (in sample)
* Better startup of factorial sample (no sleep)
* Many minor enhancements and cleanups
* Refactoring of standard metrics extractors and data structures
* Removed optional value in Metric, simplified a lot
* Configuration of EWMA by using half-life duration
* Renamed DataStream to EWMA
* Incorporate review feedback
* Use binarySearch for selecting weighted routees
* More metrics selectors for the router
* Removed network metrics, since not supported on linux
* Configuration of router
* Rename to AdaptiveLoadBalancingRouter
* Remove total cores metrics, since it's the same as jmx getAvailableProcessors,
tested on intel 24 core server and amd 48 core server, and MBP
* API cleanup
* Java API additions
* Documentation of metrics and AdaptiveLoadBalancingRouter
* New cluster sample to illustrate metrics in the documentation,
and play around with (factorial)
* Problem: ConsistentHashingRouter used on different nodes with remote
and local routees doesn't route to same targets.
* Reason: Full address, with host and port was not used in the
representation of the routees, which produced different hash rings
on different nodes.
* Solution: Fill in full address in the toString representation for
LocalActorRef
* IMPORTANT: Discovered that rootPath of the provider didn't include the
full address. It is documented that it should and I needed that to
be able to grab the address without depending on remoting. This caused
changes in RemoteActorRefProvider. Initialization order is a bit scary
there.
- Asynchronous lockless remoting
- Pluggable transport drivers
- Multiple transport support
- Simplified lifecycle events
- Support for netty based TCP, SSL+TCP and UDP support
- Updated Akka protocol with soft-state connections and failure detection
- Refactored failure detectors (currently duplicated from cluster)
* When Watch is sent to deadLetters it will generate Terminated
* Test: receive Terminated when watched node is unknown host
* Test: receive Terminated when watched path doesn't exist
- it was always intended that tell() (and sendSystemMessage()) shall not
throw any exceptions
- this is implemented by swallowing in ActorCell
(suspend/resume/restart/stop/!/sendSystemMessage) and in
RemoteActorRef (!/sendSystemMessage)
- current implementation uses a normal method, which adds overhead but
keeps the code in one place (ActorCell.catchingSend); this is a great
opportunity for making use of macros
This has brought to light some interesting effects (aka bugs) both in
the general implementation as well as in previous fixes.
SupervisorHierarchySpec is without TODOs now and GREEN.
- always suspend/resume for Suspend/Resume/Recreate, no matter which
state the actor is in, to keep the counter balanced
- preRestart failures are logged but otherwise ignored; there’s nothing
else (apart from terminating the actor) which we could do at that
point
- preRestart/postRestart exceptions have their own distinguishable
subtype of ActorKilledException now
- fix some race conditions in tests to make them produce fewer false
failures
- remove cruft from SupervisorStrategy and add methods which can
actually be used to implement your own (with proper warning signs)
- introducing RepointableActorRef, which starts out with an
UnstartedActorCell which can cheaply be created; the Supervise()
message will trigger child.activate() in the supervisor, which means
that the actual creation (now with normal ActorCell) happens exactly
in the right place and with the right semantics. Messages which were
enqueued to the dummy cell are transferred atomically into the
ActorCell (using normal .tell()), so message sends keep working
exactly as they used to
- this enables getting rid of the brittle synchronization around
RoutedActorRef by replacing that one with a RepointableActorRef
subclass which creates RoutedActorCells upon activate(), with the nice
benefit that there is no hurry then to get it right because the new
cell is constructed “on the side”
misc fixes:
- InvalidMessageException is now actually enforced when trying to send
“null”
- Mailboxes may be created without having an ActorCell, which can come
in handy later, because the cell is only needed when this mailbox is
going to be scheduled on some executor
- remove occurrences of Props(), which is equivalent to Props[Nothing],
which is equivalent to «bug»
- add test case which verifies that context.actorOf is still synchronous
- plus all the stuff I have forgotten.
