[Pacemaker] killing corosync leaves crmd, stonithd, lrmd, cib and attrd to hog up the cpu

[ihjaz Mohamed]

Hi All,

As part of some robustness test for my cluster, I tried killing the corosync process using kill -9 <pid>. After this I see that the pacemakerd service is stopped but the processes crmd, stonithd, lrmd, cib and attrd are still running and are hogging up the cpu.


top - 06:26:51 up  2:01,  4 users,  load average: 12.04, 12.01, 11.98
Tasks: 330 total,  13 running, 317 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  7.1%us, 17.1%sy,  0.0%ni, 75.6%id,  0.1%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   8015444k total,  4804412k used,  3211032k free,    54800k buffers
Swap: 10256376k total,        0k used, 10256376k free,  1604464k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 2053 hacluste  RT   0 90492 3324 2476 R 100.0  0.0 113:40.61 crmd
 2047 root      RT   0 81480 2108 1712 R 99.8  0.0 113:40.43 stonithd
 2048 hacluste  RT   0 83404 5260 2992 R 99.8  0.1 113:40.90 cib
 2050 hacluste  RT   0 85896 2388 1952 R 99.8  0.0 113:40.43 attrd
 5018 root      20   0 8787m 345m  56m S  2.0  4.4   0:56.95 java
19017 root      20   0 15068 1252  796 R  2.0  0.0   0:00.01 top
    1 root      20   0 19232 1444 1156 S  0.0  0.0   0:01.71 init
    2 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd
    3 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/0
    4 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0



Is there a way to cleanup these processes ? OR Do I need to kill them one by one before respawning the corosync?
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