Honza, thank you for your help. further questions: On 10/04/2013, at 15:10, Jan Friesse <jfriesse@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Alejandro Z. Tomsic napsal(a): >> I would like to know how the process of failure detection is achieved in Corosync (if any). I would like to know about the implementation details, i.e. if its done at physical, virtual machine or at application level. Does Corosync use any known failure detection mechanisms? e.g. [1][2][3][4] or any other. Where can I find this information? > > Totem is based on circulating token and lost of token (so token was not > delivered for given time) is used as failure detector (so weak > detector). Corosync also implements (optionally) hearth beating. > > For more informations take a look to: > https://github.com/corosync/corosync/wiki/Developers#reference-documentation do you think that there is a modular way to replace this for different failure detectors? I am interested in making a comparison and evaluation of different mechanisms. > > Especially > http://corosync.github.com/corosync/doc/DAAgarwal.thesis.ps.gz should > give you informations you need. > > Regards, > Honza > Best, Alejandro >> >> Thank you in advance. >> >> Alejandro >> >> >> >> >> [1] M.Bertier,O.Marin,andP.Sens.Implementation and performance evaluation of an adaptable failure detector. In International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), pages 354–363, June 2002. >> >> [2] W. Chen, S. Toueg, and M. K. Aguilera. On the quality of service of failure detectors. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 51(5):561–580, May 2002. >> >> [3] N. Hayashibara, X. De ́fago, R. Yared, and T. Katayama. The φ accrual failure detector. In IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), pages 66–78, Oct. 2004. >> >> [4] Joshua B. Leners, Hao Wu, Wei-Lun Hung, Marcos K. Aguilera, and Michael Walfish. 2011. Detecting failures in distributed systems with the Falcon spy network. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Third ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 279-294. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> discuss mailing list >> discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxx >> http://lists.corosync.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.corosync.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss