On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 16:48 -0400, Anu Matthew wrote: > My question is about the significance of maxrestarts and > maxfalserestarts. Could setting maxfalserestarts to say, 1 or so would > have averted this situation? Probably not. Maxrestarts / false starts are checked after a service fails but before it's restarted. You'd probably want to file a ticket with Red Hat Support about this: http://www.redhat.com/apps/support/ Did you have a very high load spike when this occurred? -- Lon -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster