On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 04:46:16PM +0530, Savita Kulkarni wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Recently we are seeing lots of heartbeat errors related to
> Gmain_timeout_dispatch
> on our system.
> I checked on mailing list archives if other people have faced this issue.
> There are few email threads regarding this but people are seeing this issue
> in case of high load.
> 
> On our system there is very low/no load is present.
> 
> We are running heartbeat on guest VMs, using VMWARE ESXi 5.0.
> We have heartbeat -2.1.3-4
> It is working fine without any issues on other other setups and issue is
> coming only on this setup.
> 
> Following types of errors are present in /var/log/messages
> 
> Nov 12 09:58:43  heartbeat: [23036]: WARN: Gmain_timeout_dispatch:
> Dispatch function for send local status was delayed 15270 ms (> 1010
> ms) before being called (GSource: 0x138926b8)
> Nov 12 09:59:00  heartbeat: [23036]: info: Gmain_timeout_dispatch:
> started at 583294569 should have started at 583293042
> Nov 12 09:59:00 heartbeat: [23036]: WARN: Gmain_timeout_dispatch:
> Dispatch function for update msgfree count was delayed 33960 ms (>
> 10000 ms) before being called (GSource: 0x13892f58)
> 
> Can anyone tell me what can be the issue?
> 
> Can it be a hardware issue?

Could be many things, even that, yes.

Could be that upgrading to recent heartbeat 3 helps.

Could be that there is to little load, and your virtualization just
stops scheduling the VM itself, because it thinks it is underutilized...

Does it recover if you kill/restart heartbeat?

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