On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 08:16:49AM +0200, Ulrich Windl wrote:
> >>> Dejan Muhamedagic <deja...@fastmail.fm> schrieb am 04.04.2011 um 13:56 in
> Nachricht <20110404115618.GD3553@squib>:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 08:32:10AM +0200, Alain.Moulle wrote:
> > > Hi
> > > 
> > > I got a strange message about "... max_child_count (4) reached, 
> > > postponing execution of operation stop ..." on a resource.
> > > 
> > > What is the meaning of this max_child_count ?
> > 
> > lrmd (the local resource manager) won't run more than this
> > number of resource operations in parallel. It's a mechanism to
> > prevent placing too much load on the node. As soon as one of the
> > operation finishes, the next one in the queue is started.
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I wonder: If a machine has something like 12 cores, shouldn't that value 
> depend on the number of CPUs?

Yes, I've been thinking about it too. The "choke" default value
has been chosen something like 4-5 years ago. Now, it may happen
that some of the tasks are very I/O intensive. So, I'm still
unsure about it.

Thanks,

Dejan

> Regards,
> Ulrich
> 
> 
> > 
> > > Is it possible to tune it ?
> > > How can it be tuned ? with regard with which items ? nb of resources 
> > > configured ? anything else ?
> > 
> > Yes, by setting LRMD_MAX_CHILDREN in /etc/sysconfig/pacemaker in
> > SUSE distributions (SLES or OpenSUSE). Don't know if init
> > scripts of other distributions have this option. I think you'll
> > need the latest Heartbeat (if you're running heartbeat and not
> > corosync). Note that this is a per-node setting.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Dejan
> > 
> > > 
> > > Thanks a lot.
> > > Alain
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