[Gluster-users] Emulating node outages

Joseph Hardeman jwhardeman at gmail.com
Mon Dec 7 14:11:06 UTC 2015


Hi Lindsay,

Another way to test a failure is, if you have access to the switch layer
and know 100% which ports the node your wanting to simulate dying is, then
just shut all ports down at the same time.  This does a good job simulating
a node dying.

Joe

On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 9:05 AM, Lindsay Mathieson <
lindsay.mathieson at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've been stress testing gluster (VM hosting), including testing how well
> it handles node outages.
>
> Since I can't physically reboot or reset the nodes I've been doing the
> following:
>
>     killall glusterd glusterfsd
>
> Is there a better way of emulating a node failure?
>
> Is there a clean way to close glusterfsd without killing it?
>
> Thanks - Lindsay
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