[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 2/3] ocfs2/cluster: Increase the live threshold

Mark Fasheh mfasheh at suse.com
Thu Apr 21 16:49:15 PDT 2011


On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 04:39:48PM -0700, Joel Becker wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 03:13:46PM -0700, Sunil Mushran wrote:
> > We have seen isolated cases (very few, I might add) of o2hb not
> > detecting all live nodes on startup. One plausible reasoning for it
> > is that other node had a hb io delay at the same time. The live
> > threshold currently is 2. That's as low as it can be. As we set it to
> > that because we start the heartbeat on mount.
> > 
> > With global heartbeat we can afford to increase that timeout. The
> > patch increases it for only global heartbeat and that too only for
> > the first heartbeat region.
> > 
> > Makes sense?
> 
> 	I think Mark wants this in the patch description.  We won't find
> this email a year from now ;-)

This ^^^

I just figured it was going to go in the patch but you wanted me to look at
the text first.
	--Mark

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Mark Fasheh



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