[Pacemaker] pingd CPU usage increases slowly

[Andrew Beekhof]

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Stelio Plautz <stelio at sphome.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've set up a 2 node cluster on debian etch amd64, pacemaker 1.0.2-1
> and heartbeat 2.99.1-1 from suse repository.
> everything works fine, but pingd increases CPU usage slowly. I've two
> pingd processes running and both use about 100 % CPU after 3 weeks.
>
> 14091 root      16   0 1299M 1263M   936 S 55.6  7.4
> 166h44:20 /usr/lib/heartbeat/pingd -D -p /var/run/public_net.pid -a
> public_net -d 5s -m 100 -h xxx.xxx.xxx.1 14098 root      15   0 1299M
> 1263M   936 R 47.0  7.4 166h42:22 /usr/lib/heartbeat/pingd -D
> -p /var/run/mgmt_net.pid -a mgmt_net -d 5s -m 100 -h zzz.zzz.zzz.1
>
> I've found the following link ...
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linuxha/pacemaker/54236
> ... and installed the pingd RA from pacemaker 1.0.3-1.
> The default ping interval is now 1, but pingd CPU usage still
> slow-growing.
>
> Thanks for any advice

I'm pretty sure this is fixed in 1.0.3 (you'd need the new binary as well)