[Linux-HA] Giant Heartbeat Packets?

[Andrew Beekhof]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Robinson, Eric <eric.robinson at psmnv.com> wrote:
> I have four heartbeat 2-node clusters on the same VLAN. Three of them
> are configured to broadcast heartbeat information (they'll be changed to
> unicast soon). Two of the clusters are communicating with each other
> using relatively small 222-byte or 223-byte packets. But one of the
> clusters is broadcasting humongous 15394-byte packets. Any thoughts on
> why this would be?

Could be the cib doing a full refresh.
How big is your cib?  Anything interesting from the cib in the logs? Version?

> (These giant packets are just cluster communication.
> Drbd replication is done over a dedicated back-to-back link.)
>
> So why is this one cluster sending massive packets?
>
> (Moving forward, we are switching to Pacemaker+Corosync, but the
> existing clusters won't be changed for quite some time.)
>
> --
> Eric Robinson
>
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