James Firth wrote: > Hi, > > I have some questions on configuring and tuning heartbeats and > node-failure detection. > > I have a 2-node cluster. Whenever a node fails it seems to take a while > to detect node failure. > > First question: I have reduced heartbeat hello_timer to 1 second, and > deadnode_timeout to 5 seconds. Is there an elegant way to do this with > cluster.conf? Currently I'm setting > /proc/cluster/config/cman/hello_timer with an init script hack. > The latest code (RHEL4 U3, or CVS STABLE/RHEL4) allows you to put these into cluster.conf as <cluster> <cman deadnode_timeout="5" hello_timer="1" /> ... </cluster/ -- patrick -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster