Why are there restrictions on the election timeout, heartbeat and lease?

[bubbajoe]

Hello,

I came across this repo and the simplicity/flexibility really inspired me to switch from hashicorp/raft in my Distributed API Gateway at dgate-io/dgate; There were a few other reasons, but I will spare you the details.

I plan to create a cluster that spans across the globe (I am aware of the potential low latency/throughput). And I am wondering why there are min/max restrictions on the election timeout, heartbeat and lease values and if there are any potential issues that you foresee if they were to be increased.

These values seem very low even for a regional deployment of some key/value database.

[jmsadair]

Hi Joe,

I don't think there are issues with this for your use case. I chose values that I thought were within a reasonable range for most use cases, but I can go ahead and increase them or remove them all together. I'll update this today or tomorrow.