Hi, On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 03:13:14AM -0700, Robinson, Eric wrote: > >> 2009/09/13_01:52:04 WARN: Gmain_timeout_dispatch: Dispatch function > >> for send local status was delayed 15190 ms (> 10 > > >The last one is particularly bad: the local heartbeat was > >delayed for more than 15 seconds. > > > I checked all my old logs and this message appears 3 or 4 times per day, > usually between midnight and 3:00 AM, which is when the backups run. The > longest delay was 15 seconds, which seems to have occurred only once. > There were a couple of delays in the 10 second range, and then all the > rest were 5 seconds or less. My deadtime configuration is 30 seconds. > > 1. Do you think I have anything to worry about?
Yes, I think that this deserves investigation though it's nothing to panic about. The deadtime setting seems to be long enough. > 2. Why would backups cause so much load that heartbeat can't update? > These are 8-core 2.6GHz machines with 32GB RAM and 6x 15K SAS drives in > a RAID 5 array. Backups are known to be quite demanding. I'd suggest collecting data with sar. Thanks, Dejan > -- > Eric Robinson > > > Disclaimer - October 13, 2009 > This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended > solely for General Linux-HA mailing list. If you are not the named addressee > you should not disseminate, distribute, copy or alter this email. Any views > or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and might > not represent those of Physician Select Management and Physician's Managed > Care. Warning: Although Physician Select Management and Physician's Managed > Care have taken reasonable precautions to ensure no viruses are present in > this email, the companies cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage > arising from the use of this email or attachments. > This disclaimer was added by Policy Patrol: http://www.policypatrol.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Linux-HA mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha > See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
