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<h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="electiontimes"></a>Managing Election Times</h2>
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<a href="electiontimes.html#electiontimeout">Managing Election Timeouts</a>
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<a href="electiontimes.html#electretrytime">Managing Election Retry Times</a>
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Where it comes to elections, there are two timeout
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values with which you should be concerned: election
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timeouts and election retries.
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<h3 class="title"><a id="electiontimeout"></a>Managing Election Timeouts</h3>
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When an environment calls for an election, it will wait
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some amount of time for the other replicas in the
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replication group to respond. The amount of time
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that the environment will wait before declaring the
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election completed is the <span class="emphasis"><em>election timeout</em></span>.
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If the environment hears from all other known replicas before
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the election timeout occurs, the election is considered
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a success and a master is elected.
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If only a subset of replicas respond, then the success
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or failure of the election is determined by
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how many replicas have participated in the
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election. It only takes a simple
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majority of replicas to elect a master. If
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there are enough votes for a given environment to
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meet that standard, then the master has been
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elected and the election is considered a
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success.
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However, if not enough replicas have participated in
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the election when the election timeout value is
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reached, the election is considered a failure
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and a master is not elected. At this point,
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your replication group is operating without a
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master, which means that, essentially,
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your replicated application has been placed in
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read-only mode.
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Note, however, that the Replication Manager will attempt a
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new election after a given amount of time has
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passed. See the next section for details.
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You set the election timeout value using
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<span><code class="methodname">DB_ENV->rep_set_timeout()</code>.</span>
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To do so, specify the
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<code class="literal">DB_REP_ELECTION_TIMEOUT</code>
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value to the <code class="literal">which</code> parameter and then a
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timeout value in microseconds to the
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<code class="literal">timeout</code> parameter.
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<div class="titlepage">
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<h3 class="title"><a id="electretrytime"></a>Managing Election Retry Times</h3>
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In the event that a election fails (see the
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previous section), an election will not be
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attempted again until the election retry
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timeout value has expired.
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You set the retry timeout value using
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<span><code class="methodname">DB_ENV->rep_set_timeout()</code>.</span>
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To do so, specify the
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<code class="literal">DB_REP_ELECTION_RETRY</code>
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value to the <code class="literal">which</code> parameter and then a
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retry value in microseconds to the
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<code class="literal">timeout</code> parameter.
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Note that this <span>flag</span>
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is only
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valid when you are using the Replication Manager. If you are
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using the Base APIs, then this
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<span>flag</span>
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