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Question on shutdown process

Hi, for milestone 2, can we assume that the ECS will not be shut down? Also, when shutting down each server (for example, for the 100-server scalability test), do we simply send kill signal to each server process? Are more complex shutdown mechanisms required? Thanks!

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first q -> yes. we assume ecs is a server that never fails.

second q -> killing a server here means a graceful shutdown a kv_server, e..g, control +c. your system needs to handle this situation by transferring data to other servers (if any).

third q -> we do not consider crash of servers; in this case, data will not be transfered.

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