I don't believe slurpd was shut down, but maybe it just died or got hung on its own (hard to tell since it either was no longer running or was not responding to SIGTERM when the load was noticeably high).
Are you sure that slurpd will continue to consume the replog if it has no replicas to write to? If so, then where does that data go? Is it just lost (because that isn't the behavior we're looking for, since we can't guarantee that a replica will always be up)?
--Quanah
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