[Linux-cluster] reducing heartbeat interval

garylua at singnet.com.sg garylua at singnet.com.sg
Fri May 4 01:55:42 UTC 2007


Hi Patrick,

Thanks for the help again. Can I know in which part of the cluster.conf file do I insert the heartbeat parameter line? And I've heard somewhere that the minimum time that I can set for the heartbeat interval is 5 seconds. Just wondering whether is that true. Thanks



--- Patrick Caulfield <pcaulfie at redhat.com> wrote:

> garylua at singnet.com.sg wrote:
> > Hi Patrick,
> > 
> > Thanks for the response. I understand that the hello_timer
> parameter is the heartbeat interval. However, when i look at my
> cluster.conf, there is no entry for the hello_timer or the
> deadnode_timer. Do i have to add the line into my cluster.conf file?
> thanks
> > 
> 
> Yes, you'll need to add it by hand. We don't normally fill in those
> defaults
> because we don't encourage people to play with them!
> 
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