I've reconfigured watchdog, and set it to 100, 90, 80.

I tried ridiculously large values (500), but one of the systems went
completely unresponsive.

Thanks...

Doug

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Edward Capriolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> The kernel hardware watchdog is supposed to handle restarts even when
> userspace processes are starved out from the kernel. Watchdog runs
> with real time priority and if the kernel detects the watchdog is
> falling being the system is rebooted. I would suggest to reconfigure,
> not disable. I do not think saying ha is a replacement for the kernel
> watchdog.
>
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Lars Ellenberg
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 12:52:28PM -0400, Doug Eubanks wrote:
> >> I'm pretty sure that's not the case.  It's immediate as soon as the
> server
> >> hits a 1min load average of 30.  It does not matter how long it took the
> >> server to reach 30.
> >>
> >> We are using heartbeat 2.1.3.
> >>
> >> I saw this message today....
> >>
> >> Aug 25 12:49:14 mailserver1A watchdog[2316]: loadavg 25 11 4 is higher
> than
> >> the given threshold 24 18 12!
> >>
> >> Think it may be related?
> >
> > sure that is related.
> > but not to heartbeat.
> >
> > man watchdog
> > man watchdog.conf
> > vi /etc/watchdog.conf
> >
> > either configure that watchdog thing
> > "correctly" for your needs and setup.
> >
> > or get rid of it completely.
> > after all, by using heartbeat,
> > you already have  your cluster nodes "monitoring" each other.
> > and the watchdog ain't no use if it gets in the way, right?
> >
> >
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