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Randomised election timeouts #53

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Aditya-Sood opened this issue Nov 9, 2023 · 0 comments
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Randomised election timeouts #53

Aditya-Sood opened this issue Nov 9, 2023 · 0 comments

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Hi Ben
Let me start off by thanking you for the amazing Raft visualiser - I watched it after your Go-Time podcast, and it has really helped me so much now that I started reading the paper
Thanks to your work it was really easy for me to mentally visualise while reading the paper

One callout that I have - I noticed that the nodes seem to experience election timeout at fixed (individual) intervals. Was that a conscious choice?

I'm not sure if the paper specifies that behaviour, and it might help with lowering the probability of candidacy collisions even further by choosing a random duration after every timeout

Just wanted to run this by you in case you agree

Thanks!

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