Re: HB declares the local machine dead and kills LD

[Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@xxxxxxx>]

On 2003-11-15T11:54:23,
   John Barrett <jbarrett@xxxxxx> said:

> I'm using 1 second heartbeats with a 5 second dead time, but still from time
> to time I get THIS:
> (note: the machine declared dead is the local machine !!!)

There is a kernel bug in some kernel releases which prevents heartbeat
from being scheduled often enough.

Which kernel are you running?

The workaround is obvious, use a longer (maybe 10s) deadtime.


Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@xxxxxxx>

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