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Stopping a gateway sender is an action that may be used to avoid the filling of gateway sender queues in long lasting split brain situations. But, given the current status of the implementation, it would not be effective because incoming events will still be stored by the primary gateway senders, using at least the same amount of memory (if not more if overflow to disk is configured) as the events queued by the sender when it is running, and with a very high risk of heap memory exhaustion.

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• This member variable will be set to false (do not store dropped events) in the primary and secondary gateway sender instances in a second step added to the the gfsh stop gateway sender command, right after the stop of the gateway senders has been completed.
• This member variable will be set to true (store dropped events) in the primary and secondary gateway sender instances in a prior step added to the start gateway sender gfsh command, before the start of the senders is executed.

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