[Linux-ha-dev] Re: Bug#425434: Heartbeat-2 taking up all resources

[Simon Horman]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 02:19:45PM +0100, Federico Belvisi wrote:
> On the last few days I managed to reinstall a new debian stable (etch) on my
> little nslu2, and I gave heartbeat another try. On backports.org i found
> heartbeat-2.1.2-1~bpo40+2, i installed it but no way to let it working. I tried
> with overcommit (/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory 0 and 1), no other processes
> running, heartbeat only configured to cluster a dhcp server. Unlike the previous
> attempts, this time I had no LVM and no reiserfs, only an ext3+swap partitioning.
> 
> No luck with heartbeat 'till now, it shows the same behaviour, it goes out of
> memory even if there's plenty of free swap.

I believe that heartbaet tires to lock itself into physical memory,
which would explain why it fails to use available swap.

-- 
Horms