[Linux-cluster] Odd timing with fence_ipmilan

[Marek Grac]

On 10/30/2013 04:46 PM, Digimer wrote:
> I noticed that with fence_ipmilan on RHEL 6.4
> (fence-agents-3.1.5-25.el6_4.2.x86_64), fencing action "reboot" takes
> cosistently about 18 seconds to complete. If I do a simple 'reboot'
> action or if I do three separate 'off -> status -> on' calls results in
> pretty much the same timing.
>
> However, if I use ipmitool to do the off -> status -> on, it takes about
> 5~6 seconds (re-running 'status' roughly once/second until status shows
> 'off').
>
> Is there a way to tweak fence_ipmilan to complete faster without risking
> failure?
>
Hi,

I have tried this on my IPMI machine but I was not able to reproduce it. 
I was able to find out that there it took 17-42 seconds (+ipmitool 
segfaulted once). Can you send me an strace log of several attempts?

m,