[Linux-HA] Forkbomb not initiating failover

2011-07-07 Thread James Smith
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

Re: [Linux-HA] Forkbomb not initiating failover

2011-07-07 Thread Florian Haas
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,

Re: [Linux-HA] Forkbomb not initiating failover

2011-07-07 Thread James Smith
this as rather flawed? Regards, James -Original Message- From: linux-ha-boun...@lists.linux-ha.org [mailto:linux-ha-boun...@lists.linux-ha.org] On Behalf Of Florian Haas Sent: 07 July 2011 11:59 To: General Linux-HA mailing list Subject: Re: [Linux-HA] Forkbomb not initiating failover On 2011-07

Re: [Linux-HA] Forkbomb not initiating failover

2011-07-07 Thread Florian Haas
On 2011-07-07 13:52, James Smith wrote: Hi, I appreciate that, but it doesn't answer the question. Then maybe I misunderstood the question. I had interpreted it to mean why doesn't my cluster automatically fail over under high load? -- perhaps you can rephrase to clarify. What I'm getting