[Openais] does openais need to consider the error happens inthe process of receiving a mcast message

[Mark Haverkamp]

On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 12:19 -0700, Steven Dake wrote:
> These out of memory problems are currently unsolved.  Dealing with out
> of memory sucks in a distributed system.  The memory pool idea can allow
> the administrator of the cluster to define maximum limits at which point
> the processor can be kicked from the configuration if it extends past
> its allocation limits.  Unfortunately this is unimplemented but
> something we need to fix in the future.
> 
> On the positive side, the protocol itself is correct in the face of out
> of memory errors, except perhaps for the condition where a timer cannot
> be allocated.
> 
> regards
> -steve
> 

I suppose that if there are out of memory conditions that could leave
the cluster in an inconsistent state and we don't have a fix for it yet,
we should probably kill aisexec  and let a re-configuration happen so
that we stay in a consistent state.


-- 
Mark Haverkamp <markh at osdl.org>