The commit distances for snapshots, zero means don't take any snapshots @return

Compact the log store by removing all log entries including the log at the lastLogIndex @param lastLogIndex @return compact successfully or not

Lower value for election timeout @return

The last log entry in store @return a dummy constant entry with value set to null and term set to zero if no log entry in store

The maximum heartbeat interval, any value beyond this may lead to election timeout for a peer before receiving a heartbeat @return

Election timeout lower bound in milliseconds @param electionTimeoutLower @return self

Election timeout upper bound in milliseconds @param electionTimeoutUpper @return self

heartbeat interval in milliseconds @param heartbeatInterval @return self

For new member that just joined the cluster, we will use log sync to ask it to catch up, and this parameter is to specify how many log entries to pack

For new member that just joined the cluster, we will use log sync to ask it to catch up, and this parameter is to tell when to stop using log sync but

The maximum log entries could be attached to an appendEntries call @param maxAppendingSize @return self

Rpc failure backoff in milliseconds @param rpcFailureBackoff @return self

Enable log compact and snapshot with the commit distance @param distance, log distance to compact between two snapshots @return self

The tcp block size for syncing the snapshots @param size @return self

write the log entry at the specific index, all log entries after index will be discarded @param logIndex must be >= this.getStartIndex() @param logEnt