nathanmarz/storm — Issue #97: Use worker heartbeats instead of task heartbeats
Author: nathanmarz
Created: 2012-01-11 23:00:23+00:00
State: open
Labels: Improvement

There is usually vastly less workers than task, so this will have a lot of beneficial effects:

1. Less load on ZK
2. Much faster Storm UI, as ZK is currently the bottleneck

The worker heartbeat should just contain the aggregate of the task information within the worker.