[Linux-cluster] Meaning of Cluster Cycle and timeout problems - GFS 100% cpu utilization

[Lon Hohberger]

On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 10:53 +0200, Peter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for the fast response!
> 
> It looks like GFS causes 100% cpu utilization and therefore the qdiskd  
> process has no processor time.

Ouch!  That would do it.

It sounds like a bug.

> > (3) If you think qdiskd is getting CPU starved, you can adjust the
> > 'scheduler' and 'priority' values in cluster.conf to something
> > different.  I think the man page might be wrong; I think the highest
> > 'priority' value for the 'rr' scheduler is 99, not 100.  See the
> > qdisk(5) man page for more information on those.

^^ You can still set qdiskd's priority to 99 if you want ;)

-- Lon