[Linux-HA] Don't start all groups at once?

Kelly Byrd kbyrd-linuxha at memcpy.com
Mon Oct 1 19:04:41 MDT 2007


As I've mentioned before, I've got 22 groups, each of which is tied to one
of  22 master/slave drbd resources. During normal operation, one node runs
11 and the other node runs the other 11.

During a failure, 11 drbds their 11 groups will start on the remaining
node. This will be quite a load on the surviving machine and it's
currently running resources. Each group is a virtual machine trying to
allocate a few hundred megs of RAM and boot an OS. I'd like to space it
out a bit. Is this possible? I don't want to specify an strict ordering. I
don't actually care about the order and I don't want VM-14 to not come up
because VM-13 failed for some reason. Ideally, I could configure things so
heartbeat will start a few at a time, then wait a bit, then start a few
more. If that's not possible, then starting them all sequentially would be
fine, and I'll just put a delay in the group. I'm under the impression
that heartbeat will try and start all groups at the same time. Is this
true?



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