On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 11:50:28PM -0400, Doug Eubanks wrote:
> 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.

to keep your servers responsive

 * reconfigure your application
   to not behave like an io intensive fork bomb.
 * use deadline io-scheduler
 * mount noatime
 * put a (ulimit-ted) memlocked high priority
   (busybox) getty on the console

it is my strong believe that triggering failover by rebooting
due to too much application load
is the wrong approach.

something is causing the load,
typically that something is client requests.

during failover (and coming up cache cold on the other node),
more client requests pile up.

the strategy "reboot and failover" is
likely to worsen any load problem.

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