Re: [SSI-users] newbie reliability question -- openmosix user

[Brian J. W. <Bri...@hp...>]

Indraneel Majumdar wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 08:59:00AM +0530, Roopa Prabhu wrote:
> 
>>About ps hangs, I have seen ps and a lot of other commands that work
>>clusterwide slow down during a node down. I guess that's because of a
>>lot of traffic and load that occurs as part of the node down recovery
>>code that runs in the cluster. 
>>ps does take a while to return but does not hang.
>>
> 
> Thanks, that is great. Also, just to clarify, the slow down is only
> temporary while the node goes down, and not while the node stays
> down. Right?
> 
> -Indraneel

Yes, that's correct. Once a nodedown is completely processed, it no 
longer consumes any resources.

Brian