/** * Set up the request processors for an Observer: firstProcesor->commitProcessor->finalProcessor */ @Override protected void setupRequestProcessors() { // We might consider changing the processor behaviour of // Observers to, for example, remove the disk sync requirements. // Currently, they behave almost exactly the same as followers. RequestProcessor finalProcessor = new FinalRequestProcessor(this); commitProcessor = new CommitProcessor( finalProcessor, Long.toString(getServerId()), true, getZooKeeperServerListener()); commitProcessor.start(); firstProcessor = new ObserverRequestProcessor(this, commitProcessor); ((ObserverRequestProcessor) firstProcessor).start(); /* * Observer should write to disk, so that the it won't request * too old txn from the leader which may lead to getting an entire * snapshot. * * However, this may degrade performance as it has to write to disk * and do periodic snapshot which may double the memory requirements */ if (syncRequestProcessorEnabled) { syncProcessor = new SyncRequestProcessor(this, null); syncProcessor.start(); } }