[DRBD-user] frequnet crashes/reboots on a drbd/ha/xen setup

Heiko rupertt at gmail.com
Wed Jun 3 15:52:34 CEST 2009

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Heiko <rupertt at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Tony Lownds <tony at pagedna.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jun 2, 2009, at 10:59 PM, Heiko wrote:
>>
>>  Hello,
>>>
>>> i am investigating why our server pairs reboot themselves from time to
>>> time.
>>> This is very annoing because these machines are in production and i
>>> always
>>> have to fix mysql replications or drbd splitbrains after these reboots.
>>>
>>> We have 3 pairs that use a drbd/xen/heartbeat setup and 2 of these pairs
>>> crash,
>>> sometimes every 2 week sometimes only twice a year.
>>>
>>> I first thought it could be heartbeat, but I stopped the service on 1
>>> pair and we also had a crash.
>>> Are there other people who had these kind of crashes?
>>>
>>
>> Yes, sounds familiar... switching to protocol "A" is a workaround that
>> helped for me.
>>
>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.linux.drbd/17684
>>
> Hello Tony,
>
> you are giving me hope, but I dont understand that post you linked.
> I now have set to Protocoll to A.
> Can I just run drbdadm adjust "resource" without getting any trouble/data
> los?
>
I just noticed that I dont have a common section, or is that here no
neccesary?


resource drbd_backend {
  protocol A;
  startup {
    degr-wfc-timeout 120;    # 2 minutes.
  }
  disk {
    on-io-error   detach;
  }
  net {
  }
  syncer {
        rate 500M;
        al-extents 257;
  }

  on xen-B1.fra1.mailcluster {
    device    /dev/drbd0;
    disk      /dev/md3;
    address   172.20.2.1:7788;
    meta-disk internal;
  }
  on xen-A1.fra1.mailcluster {
    device    /dev/drbd0;
    disk      /dev/md3;
    address   172.20.1.1:7788;
    meta-disk internal;
  }
}




>
>
> thnx
>
>
>>
>> -Tony
>>
>
>
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