cant that be used in conjunction wiht other packages taht will power down a node which fails?
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Kenneth Duncan Strouts < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Jon, > > > Quoting Tony Travis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Although Kerrighed looks very promising, it is also quite fragile in our >> hands. If one node crashes, you lose the entire cluster. That said, the >> Kerrighed project is extremely well supported and I believe it will be a >> good alternative in the near future. >> > > > We found that with Kerrighed, one node crashing sees the whole cluster go > down. The following is output to kern.log before the cluster dies. > > Jul 2 13:57:03 [EMAIL PROTECTED] kernel: TIPC: Resetting link > <1.1.2:eth1-1.1.3:eth1>, peer not responding > Jul 2 13:57:03 [EMAIL PROTECTED] kernel: TIPC: Lost link > <1.1.2:eth1-1.1.3:eth1> on network plane B > Jul 2 13:57:03 [EMAIL PROTECTED] kernel: TIPC: Lost contact with <1.1.3> > > From the Kerrighed mailing list (Louis Rilling); > > "Indeed, Kerrighed does not tolerate node failures yet. We have no precise > date > for this, and giving a date right now would be meaningless. The first step > for > us is to support dynamic cluster resizing (IOW live node additions and > removals), and we've just started working on it. We will work on node > failures in a second step." > > It seems they are working on this, and on a new framework for configurable > process scheduling. Probably Kerrighed will provide a good alternative in > future. > > Kenneth > > > > -- > The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in > Scotland, with registration number SC005336. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > -- Jonathan Aquilina
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