Hi!

A non-pacemaker answer: I can imagine two solutions for your problem:

  1.  Limit the reconstruction rate of the RAID
  2.  Limit the amount of (dirty) filesystem cache (we had read stalls when 
someone backed up the database and most of the RAM had been filled with dirty 
buffers to write out)

Kind regards,
Ulrich Windl

From: Users <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Brian Cosgrove
Sent: Monday, August 10, 2026 10:03 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [EXT] [EXT] [ClusterLabs] Can stalled libqb SHM I/O delay Pacemaker's 
operation timer?

Could Pacemaker’s controller block on a stalled block-device read while 
faulting in a swapped-
out libqb SHM page, before it receives the executor reply and starts the 
operation timer?

Would that behavior be expected?

I'm investigating a lockup where the PostgreSQL primary and Pacemaker DC were 
on the same node when a degraded RAID array caused reads to appear unbounded 
without returning errors. Pacemaker did not stop the PostgreSQL resource or 
promote a standby. crm_mon showed the DC as standby (with active resources).

Testing that simulates the incident reproduces that production Pacemaker 
behavior. In that setup a libqb SHM page is swapped out and controller blocks 
in shmem_fault() before the executor reply and operation timer. The surviving 
production logs (such as the crm_mon output) match. Corosync membership 
remained intact in both the incident and the test.


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Brian Cosgrove
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