[Info-vax] Production VMS cluster hanging with lots of LEFO

[Rich Jordan]

On Mar 13, 12:58 pm, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> > all, cure-all solution to system maintenance, the least he could have
> > done was to force a crash dump for post-mortem academics.
>
> In this case, I will disagree with the respectable Mr Vaxman.
>
> Since the OP managed to restore service without rebooting the main
> nodes, suggesting he should have crashed them is not worthy of VMS.

Disagree with Mr Mezei somewhat, depending on the nature of the
application(s) involved.  Given the cluster description (two nodes in
each of two locations with a third location housing the quorum box)
one node could have been crashed to generate the needed post mortem
info without affecting cluster availability.

Rich