On 2011-07-07 11:59, James Smith wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Summary: Two node cluster running DRBD, IET with a floating IP and stonith 
> enabled.
> 
> All this works well, I can kernel panic the machine, kill individual PIDs 
> (for example IET)
> which then invoke failover.  However, when I forkbomb the master, nothing 
> happens.
> The box is dead, the services stop responding etc, but pacemaker does not 
> recognise
> this and therefore failover does not occur.
> 
> Very occasionally it will fence and invoke failover after several minutes or 
> even longer,
> which is no good at all.
> 
> To me, it seems extremely odd pacemaker itself does not automatically 
> incorporate system
> health checks that can detect such a scenario.  I've raised this a couple of 
> times, but the
> suggestion is to run watchdog or create an RA to do resource checking.  
> Watchdog certainly
> does its job and is easy to configure, but this seems flawed to me.

Please refer to:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linuxha/pacemaker/70081#70081

Cheers,
Florian

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