Re: unable to recover from split-brain in a two-node cluster

Andrew Beekhof <[email protected]> Tue, 24 Jun 2014 12:23:30 +1000
Newsgroups	gmane.linux.highavailability.user
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On 24 Jun 2014, at 1:52 am, [email protected] wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I understand that initially the split-brain is caused by heartbeat messaging layer and there is nothing much can be done when packets are dropped. However, the problem is sometimes when the load is gone (or when iptables allows all traffic in my test setup), it doesn't recover.
> 
> In the second case I provided, the heartbeat on both nodes did find each other and both were active, but pacemaker in both nodes still thinks peer is offline. I don't know if this is heartbeat's problem or Pacemaker's problem though.

Do you see any messages from 'crmd' saying the node left/returned?
If you only see the node going away, then its almost certainly a heartbeat problem.

You may have better luck with a corosync based cluster, or even a newer version of pacemaker (or both! the 1.0.x codebase is quite old at this point).

I was never all that happy with heartbeat's membership code, it was a near-abandoned mystery box even at the point I started Pacemaker 10 years ago.
Corosync membership had its problems in the beginning, but personally I take comfort in the fact that its actively being worked on.
Opinions differ, but IMHO it surpassed heartbeat for reliability 3-4 years ago.

> 
> Thanks,
> -Kaiwei
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Beekhof" <[email protected]>
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> Subject: Re: [Linux-HA] unable to recover from split-brain in a two-node	cluster
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> 
> On 21 Jun 2014, at 5:18 am, [email protected] wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> New to this list and hope I can get some help here.
>> 
>> I'm using pacemaker 1.0.10 and heartbeat 3.0.5 for a two-node cluster. I'm having split-brain problem when heartbeat messages sometimes get dropped when system is under high load. However the problem is it never recover back when system load became low.
>> 
>> I created a test setup to test this by setting dead time to 6 seconds, and continuously dropping one-way heartbeat packets (udp dst port 694) for 5~8 seconds and resume the traffic for 1~2 seconds using iptables. After the system got into split-brain state, I stop the test and allow all heartbeat traffic to go through. Sometimes the system recovered by sometimes it didn't. There are various symptoms when the system didn't recovered from split-brain:
>> 
>> 1. In one instance, cl_status listnodes becomes empty. The syslog keeps showing
>> 2014-06-19T18:59:57+00:00 node-0 heartbeat:  [daemon.warning] [2853]: WARN: Message hist queue is filling up (436 messages in queue)
>> 2014-06-19T18:59:57+00:00 node-0 heartbeat:  [daemon.debug] [2853]: debug: hist->ackseq =12111
>> 2014-06-19T18:59:57+00:00 node-0 heartbeat:  [daemon.debug] [2853]: debug: hist->lowseq =12111, hist->hiseq=12547
>> 2014-06-19T18:59:57+00:00 node-0 heartbeat:  [daemon.debug] [2853]: debug: expecting from node-1
>> 2014-06-19T18:59:57+00:00 node-0 heartbeat:  [daemon.debug] [2853]: debug: it's ackseq=12111
>> 
>> 2. In another instance, cl_status nodestatus <node> shows both nodes are active, but "crm_mon -1" shows that each of the two nodes thinks itself is the DC, and peer node is offline. Pengine process is running on one node only. The node not running pengine (but still thinks itself is DC) has log shows crmd terminated pengine because it detected peer is active. After that, the peer status keeps flapping between dead and active, but pengine has never being started again. The last log shows the peer is active (after I stopped the test and allow all traffic). However "crm_mon -1" shows itself is the DC and peer is offline as:
>> 
>> [root@node-1 ~]# crm_mon -1
>> ============
>> Last updated: Fri Jun 20 19:12:23 2014
>> Stack: Heartbeat
>> Current DC: node-1 (bf053fc5-5afd-b483-2ad2-3c9fc354f7fa) - partition with quorum
>> Version: 1.0.9-da7075976b5ff0bee71074385f8fd02f296ec8a3
>> 2 Nodes configured, unknown expected votes
>> 1 Resources configured.
>> ============
>> 
>> Online: [ node-1 ]
>> OFFLINE: [ node-0 ]
>> 
>> cluster     (heartbeat:ha):      Started node-1
>> 
>> 
>> Any help, like pointer to the source code where the problem might be, or any existing bug filed for this (I did some search but didn't find matched symptoms) is appreciated.
> 
> This is happening at the heartbeat level.
> 
> Not much pacemaker can do I'm afraid.  Perhaps look to see if heartbeat is "real time" scheduled, if not that may explain why its being staved of CPU and can't get its messages out.
> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> -Kaiwei
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