From: Friedrich Weber <f.weber@proxmox.com>
To: pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com
Subject: [PATCH pve-docs 1/1] pvecm: config: document how to change the token coefficient
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2026 12:57:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260212115928.148999-4-f.weber@proxmox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260212115928.148999-1-f.weber@proxmox.com>
New clusters are created with a lower coefficient. Users with existing
clusters or users who prefer a different token coefficient may want to
change the token coefficient. Hence, add a note how to change the
token coefficient to the admin guide.
Signed-off-by: Friedrich Weber <f.weber@proxmox.com>
---
Notes:
- should this already include more details (in which cases changing
the coefficient may be necessary?) in this first version?
- currently, changing the token_coefficient in /etc/pve/corosync.conf
without a corosync restart updates token and consensus timeouts, but
knet_ping_timeout and knet_ping_interval are not updated, this is
the reason why the patch suggests a corosync restart. I filed a bug
for this [1] and there is a promising pull request [2] that appears
to fix the issue. So the question is whether we want to backport [2]
(when it's merged), and if yes, whether we want to remove the
restart suggestion from the docs.
[1] https://github.com/corosync/corosync/issues/813
[2] https://github.com/corosync/corosync/pull/814
pvecm.adoc | 17 +++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
diff --git a/pvecm.adoc b/pvecm.adoc
index 0ed1bd2..9513a6c 100644
--- a/pvecm.adoc
+++ b/pvecm.adoc
@@ -1371,6 +1371,23 @@ systemctl restart corosync
On errors, check the troubleshooting section below.
+Changing the token cofficient
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The token coefficient can be configured in the `totem` section in
+`/etc/pve/corosync.conf`. corosync uses the token coefficient to calculate
+several timeouts in relation to the cluster size.footnote:[
+`token_coefficient` in the corosync manual page
+https://manpages.debian.org/stable/corosync/corosync.conf.5.en.html#token_coefficient]
+
+If the token coefficient is not explicitly set, it defaults to 650 milliseconds.
+New clusters are created with a lower token coefficient of 125ms that is
+explicitly set in `/etc/pve/corosync.conf`.
+
+You can change the token coefficient of an existing cluster by
+xref:pvecm_edit_corosync_conf[editing corosync.conf]. For the change to fully
+take effect, you need to restart corosync on all nodes.
+
Troubleshooting
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
--
2.47.3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-02-12 11:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-12 11:57 [PATCH cluster/docs 0/3] create new corosync clusters with lower " Friedrich Weber
2026-02-12 11:57 ` [PATCH pve-cluster 1/2] corosync: create config: allow setting " Friedrich Weber
2026-02-12 11:57 ` [PATCH pve-cluster 2/2] api: cluster config: create new clusters with lower " Friedrich Weber
2026-02-16 16:00 ` Maximiliano Sandoval
2026-02-16 19:36 ` Thomas Lamprecht
2026-02-17 12:44 ` Maximiliano Sandoval
2026-02-17 12:50 ` Friedrich Weber
2026-02-16 16:09 ` Maximiliano Sandoval
2026-02-12 11:57 ` Friedrich Weber [this message]
2026-02-13 10:12 ` [PATCH pve-docs 1/1] pvecm: config: document how to change the " Friedrich Weber
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