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@d4l3k d4l3k commented Jan 13, 2025

This removes previously added room support in #48

This didn't work out in practice as expected and will be instead replaced with "shrink only" quorum support which is a bit easier to reason about and doesn't require absurdly long timeouts.

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pytest
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This didn't work out in practice as expected

Just curious, how come the quorom room did not work? Was it too slow?

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d4l3k commented Jan 13, 2025

@H-Huang in practice this ended up being too fragile and could end up with two rooms flip-flopping and thus split brain training. Since for LocalSGD the step times can be 40 minutes, in order to prevent that behavior you either need the join timeout extremely long or you need to set min_replicas to always be >=50% of the replicas which isn't feasible in all cases

@d4l3k d4l3k merged commit 97ad397 into main Jan 13, 2025
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