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    CARP setup : CPU load

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    • N
      nrgyz
      last edited by

      Sync is enabled (checked) on both master and slave. Isn't correct? I've followed the tutorial…

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      • N
        nrgyz
        last edited by

        I forgot to say that only the CARP master is having the 30% CPU issue… The slave is still running at 3%.

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          sullrich
          last edited by

          Take a screenshot of each of the hosts CARP setting screens.

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            nrgyz
            last edited by

            Thanks for your quick reply. It is really appreciated!

            Screenshot of the CARP master :
            http://img134.imageshack.us/my.php?image=carpmasterec3.jpg

            Screenshot of the CARP slave :
            http://img230.imageshack.us/my.php?image=carpslavenv2.jpg

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            • N
              nrgyz
              last edited by

              I can confirm with :

              # tcpdump -i fwe0

              that only CARP master is syncing to slave (not reverse)

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              • S
                sullrich
                last edited by

                Your setup looks correct.  Not sure why you would be seeing this added load.  My CARP hosts are not showing this.

                Can you try running a few commands:

                top -I
                vmstat -i
                vmstat -s

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                  nrgyz
                  last edited by

                  # top -I
                  last pid: 28232;  load averages:  0.66,  0.34,  0.27  up 53+12:19:21  09:15:58
                  42 processes:  1 running, 40 sleeping, 1 zombie
                  CPU states:  0.4% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  2.3% interrupt, 97.3% idle
                  Mem: 77M Active, 17M Inact, 51M Wired, 38M Buf, 286M Free
                  Swap: 1024M Total, 1024M Free

                  PID USERNAME  THR PRI NICE  SIZE    RES STATE    TIME  WCPU COMMAND
                  5756 root        1  8  20  6588K  6096K wait  579:03  1.86% sh

                  # vmstat -i
                  interrupt                          total      rate
                  irq0: clk                      330038995        71
                  irq1: atkbd0                          71          0
                  irq3: sio1                            1          0
                  irq4: sio0                            1          0
                  irq8: rtc                      591744555        127
                  irq10: fwohci0 re*            2122065738        458
                  irq11: re0 atapci0            134476563        29
                  irq14: ata0                      6560429          1
                  Total                        3184886353        688

                  # vmstat -s
                  3996661449 cpu context switches
                  3086919878 device interrupts
                  159397933 software interrupts
                  2324797307 traps
                  1958236698 system calls
                        39 kernel threads created
                  10128798  fork() calls
                    484718 vfork() calls
                          0 rfork() calls
                          0 swap pager pageins
                          0 swap pager pages paged in
                          0 swap pager pageouts
                          0 swap pager pages paged out
                        469 vnode pager pageins
                      3167 vnode pager pages paged in
                    2003234 vnode pager pageouts
                    2034058 vnode pager pages paged out
                          0 page daemon wakeups
                          0 pages examined by the page daemon
                        265 pages reactivated
                  1701373918 copy-on-write faults
                    885999 copy-on-write optimized faults
                  415813077 zero fill pages zeroed
                  414164367 zero fill pages prezeroed
                      2874 intransit blocking page faults
                  2329291089 total VM faults taken
                          0 pages affected by kernel thread creation
                  2926195887 pages affected by  fork()
                  255613759 pages affected by vfork()
                          0 pages affected by rfork()
                  2179053141 pages freed
                          0 pages freed by daemon
                  1936954364 pages freed by exiting processes
                      19535 pages active
                      5476 pages inactive
                          0 pages in VM cache
                      12961 pages wired down
                      72043 pages free
                      4096 bytes per page
                  774325484 total name lookups
                            cache hits (89% pos + 9% neg) system 0% per-directory
                            deletions 0%, falsehits 0%, toolong 0%

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                  • dotdashD
                    dotdash
                    last edited by

                    It may be the firewire interface. My experience is that firewire is usable for a sync interface, but it hasn't been 100% stable…

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                      sullrich
                      last edited by

                      @dotdash:

                      It may be the firewire interface. My experience is that firewire is usable for a sync interface, but it hasn't been 100% stable…

                      Yep, that appears to be the culprit indeed.

                      If you are not using firewire, try turning it off in the BIOS.

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                        nrgyz
                        last edited by

                        Unfortunately I'm using the 1394 int. for the CARP sync. I thought it was stable…

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