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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2006
Applicants:
Sabyasachi Sengupta, Bangalore Karnataka, IN;
Pramod Sathyanarayana Rao, Bangalore Karnataka, IN;
Inventors:
Sabyasachi Sengupta, Bangalore Karnataka, IN;
Pramod Sathyanarayana Rao, Bangalore Karnataka, IN;
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An embodiment of a method of maintaining operation of a cluster of computing devices includes an initial step of detecting a suspended kernel process on a first of the computing devices. In addition to the step of detecting the suspended kernel process the method includes the step of issuing a first signal that causes a cluster management process to disregard the first of the computing devices when determining if there exists a quorum of the computing devices.