[rabbitmq-discuss] Clustering question

Fri Sep 19 16:59:50 BST 2008

Hi Matthias,

Matthias Radestock wrote:
> Dmitriy Samovskiy wrote:
>  > I am running a RabbitMQ cluster - rabbit at host1 and rabbit at host2. 
> After a loss of network
>> connectivity between host1 and host2, each node fails to note its 
>> counterpart's presence even after connectivity is restored.
> 
> Network partitioning may leave mnesia in a state where it needs help to 
> join up the cluster. See 
> http://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/mnesia/Mnesia_chap7.html#6.7
Thanks a lot for the pointer.

> Were there any mnesia-related errors in the logs?
Yes, I see ** ERROR ** mnesia_event got {inconsistent_database, 
running_partitioned_network in rabbit.log. My bad for writing to the list without looking 
in the logs...

I will revisit this problem next week, and report back how it goes.

- Dmitriy