It waits $dampen before changes are pushed to the cib. So that eventually occuring icmp hickups do not produce an unintended failover.
At least that's my understanding. Regards Dominik On 04/29/2011 09:22 AM, Ulrich Windl wrote: > Hi, > > I think the description for "dampen" in OCF:pacemaker:ping > (pacemaker-1.1.5-5.5.5 of SLES11 SP1) is too terse: > > <parameter name="dampen" unique="0"> > <longdesc lang="en"> > The time to wait (dampening) further changes occur > </longdesc> > <shortdesc lang="en">Dampening interval</shortdesc> > <content type="integer" default="5s"/> > </parameter> > > What does that do? > > Regards, > Ulrich _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
