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PRB: Large IsAlive() Polling Interval Is Accepted but Ignored

Article ID: 179475

Article Last Modified on 7/11/2005

Microsoft Platform Software Development Kit-January 2000 Edition
Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Enterprise Edition

This article was previously published under Q179475

SYMPTOMS

Cluster Administrator allows you to set a very large value for the IsAlive() polling interval. However, IsAlive() is called more frequently than specified. For example, a value of 100,000,000 milliseconds (more than 27 hours) results in an IsAlive() call roughly every six minutes.

STATUS

Microsoft is researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

MORE INFORMATION

You can determine the correct IsAlive() polling interval by logging an event every time IsAlive() is called and enabling logging for the cluster server. If you use the Resource Type AppWizard to generate your resource DLL, you can compile with LOG_VERBOSE defined to log a message for each call to IsAlive().

Additional query words: LogEvent()

Keywords: kbprb kbclustering KB179475