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If the recipient of SuspectMembersMessage is not the coordinator, it checks to see if it should might become the coordinator and so should initiate a final check. For a recipient to become the coordinator, it first depends on a few settings: whether network partition detection is enabled, or whether security authentication is enabled, or whether gemfire.disable-floating-coordinator is set(See ServiceConfig. areLocatorsPreferredAsCoordinators for more details). If either one of these is setenabled, and the current coordinator is a suspect member, and any member to the left of the recipient in current view is a suspect member, the recipient will might become the coordinator and will initiate a final check.

If the recipient is not the coordinator and should not become the coordinatorthe above checks fail, it records the SuspectRequest for subsequent use, which helps determine whether the recipient it should become the coordinator in the future.

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