[Linux-cluster] Seeing lots of: [TOTEM] Retransmit List messages

[Steven Dake]

On 01/26/2011 11:35 AM, Scooter Morris wrote:
> We're seeing lots of these messages on a single node in our 3 node RHEL
> 5.6 cluster (but never on the other nodes).  According to previous
> posts, this is indicative of lost packets and openais should recover
> just fine.  On the other hand, it's really disconcerting that we're
> losing packets (we've been fighting gfs2 glock issues also).  Is this a
> "normal" message, or should we really be concerned about losing
> packets?  We're not logging any errors on the private ethernet
> interfaces of any of the nodes, so I'm not really sure what might be
> going on.
> 

We implemented a workaround in 5.6 for a delayed multicast situation
that occurs on many switch vendor's hardware in openais-0.80.6-27.el5.
The workaround should solve the problem unless indeed there are lost
packets or there is a build error.  Which openais rpm are you using?

Regards
-steve

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