Support for Storage Solutions 4.0 Linux and Cluster Storage Solutions 4.0 Linux on AMD Opterons in 32-bit mode has been added. See the reference below.

VERITAS Storage Foundation (tm) HA Release Note Addendum Added 8/26/2004

A VERITAS Cluster Server (tm) cluster may failover due to memory starvation

This problem may occur on a two-node failover cluster configured with VERITAS Cluster Server (tm), VERITAS File System (tm), and VERITAS Volume Manager (tm).

When subjected to a large number of file write requests, a significant amount of available memory is consumed by File System. When the file system is flushing data to disk, arbitrary processes can block for an indeterminate period of time waiting for memory to become free. Under these conditions, the Cluster Server HA daemon may not be able to exchange regular and frequent heartbeats. The Cluster Server kernel driver will interpret this as a node failure, causing the node to panic.

Each node of the cluster on which the problem occurred was configured with:

 Two Intel Pentium III processors running at 728 MHz
 512 megabytes of memory


VERITAS was unable to reproduce this problem on any other systems, and no VERITAS Beta customers have reported this problem.

It is likely this issue is due to a combination of a relatively small amount of physical memory and a large amount of data being written.


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