Hi, The Sun Cluster Membership algorithm seeks to recover in a short time period. This means that the quorum device must respond quickly. If the quorum device does not respond quickly, then the cluster cannot count its quorum vote. A slowly responding quorum device can result in complete cluster failure.
In order to ensure that the Quorum Server can respond in a timely manner, the Quorum Server runs at a very high real time priority. Things without privileges cannot run this high. If you run the Quorum Server as an ordinary process, the Quorum Server will FAIL to respond in a timely manner on a busy system. Your entire cluster can fail. The exact system account does not matter. But the Quorum Server needs its high priority. Regards, Ellard Piotr Jasiukajtis wrote: > Hello, > > How about that? > > On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Piotr Jasiukajtis<estseg at gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Is there any requirement to run Quorum Server as user root? >> If no, I propose to add a dedicated system account (for example >> qsuser) and change SUNWscqsr package to run >> svc:/system/cluster/quorumserver:default service as non privileged >> account. >> >> -- >> Piotr Jasiukajtis | estibi | SCA OS0072 >> http://estseg.blogspot.com >> > > >
