[Gluster-users] [3.3 beta3] When should the self-heal daemon be triggered?

Toby Corkindale toby.corkindale at strategicdata.com.au
Thu May 3 13:35:07 UTC 2012


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Vijay Bellur" <vbellur at redhat.com>
> 
> On 05/03/2012 03:15 PM, Toby Corkindale wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I eventually installed three Debian unstable machines, so I could
> > install the GlusterFS 3.3 beta3.
> >
> > I have a question about the self-heal daemon.
[snip
> > Was that supposed to happen automatically, eventually, or am I
> > missing
> > something about how the self-heal daemon works?
> >
> 
> The self-heal daemon triggers a crawl once every 600 seconds. If you
> wait out that interval, you should be able to see self-heals
> happening
> automatically. Else you can trigger it explicitly the way you did.

Hi Vijay,
thanks for your response - that's enlightening.

Is that 600 second period configurable via a file somewhere?

During my evaluation of the 3.3 beta, it would be handy to reduce the time significantly.

thanks,
Toby



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