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

Tony Lownds tony at pagedna.com
Wed Jun 3 15:34:37 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 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

-Tony



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