[Linux-cluster] Questions related to cluster quorum and fencing

2011-01-18 Thread Parvez Shaikh
Hi all, *Quorum - * The questions are bit theoretical, I have gone through documentation and man pages and have understood that, a cluster is "quorate" if a cluster or its partition has nodes, with votes equal to or more than "expected_votes" in "cman" section of cluster.conf file (with no require

Re: [Linux-cluster] Question about GFS2 and mmap

2011-01-18 Thread Scooter Morris
Hi Steven, As near as I can tell, the access times aren't getting updated, but when I run BLAST on a second node, it also gets an EX lock on the inode. On the other hand, if I run them simultaneously, they both get shared (SH) locks (!?!): node1: lsof: blastp21730root memREG 2

Re: [Linux-cluster] Qdisk and Reboot problem

2011-01-18 Thread Alvaro Jose Fernandez
Hi There was recently a thread about evictions due to multipath timeouts with qdisk, it's in the " Re: [Linux-cluster] RHCS Multipath / Fence" thread. The pointed RHN docs aids over suggested timings in multipath.conf to try avoid these issues, perhaps it would help. regards, alvaro -Mens

Re: [Linux-cluster] Question about GFS2 and mmap

2011-01-18 Thread Steven Whitehouse
Hi, On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 11:06 -0800, Scooter Morris wrote: > Steven, > Thanks for getting back to me. Yes, I've checked and noatime is > definitely set. While blast was running, I did a lockdump and the > mmaped files had EX locks on them: > > G: s:EX n:2/5497229 f:q t:EX d:EX/0 l:0 a

[Linux-cluster] Qdisk and Reboot problem

2011-01-18 Thread jose nuno neto
I we have several redhat cluster running cman-2.0.115-34.el5 and yesterday we faced and incident I cant figure it out: We have 2node cluster+qdisk connected through iscsi with dual paths we had some network issue and one of paths to the quorum disk was unavailable. after that I see some qdisk evic