flood of balance messages

[Darren]

Jerimiah Cole wrote:
>
> I see these every 60 seconds for every pool configured for failover.
> With 10,000 pools, it got pretty chatty so I patched the server to only
> log when there's some sort of error in the balance process.
>
>   
Except that they were showing up at the rate of several hundred per 
second (duplicates).  It seemed to be balancing or attempting to balance 
the pools several hundred times per second.  Within a few minutes my log 
file had reached 2.0gig and syslog refused to write to it any more.  
During this time it was still answering requests and so on...  Would 
certainly like to avoid this in the future since we don't find out about 
it for hours...

> After looking at the man page, it looks like you can tweak the balance
> interval with the min-balance and max-balance options.
>   
I have these settings each at 1800 in hopes that it would only balance 
every 30 minutes.

> I think these messages are unnecessary unless you're debugging, and can
> be safely ignored.  Of course, as you pointed out, it can blow up your
> logs if you have a lot of pools.
>
> Jerimiah
>
>   
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