Torrey McMahon wrote: > A Darren Dunham wrote: > >> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 05:32:21PM -0400, Torrey McMahon wrote: >> >> >>> However, some apps will probably be very unhappy if i/o takes 60 seconds >>> to complete. >>> >>> >> It's certainly not uncommon for that to occur in an NFS environment. >> All of our applications seem to hang on just fine for minor planned and >> unplanned outages. >> >> Would the apps behave differently in this case? (I'm certainly not >> thinking of a production database for such a configuration). >> > > Some applications have their own internal timers that track i/o time > and, if it doesn't complete in time, will error out. I don't know which > part of the stack the timer was in but I've seen an Oracle RAC cluster > on QFS timeout much faster then the SCSI retries normally allow for. (I > think it was Oracle in that case...)
Oracle bails out after 10 minutes (ORA-27062) ask me how I know... :-P -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
