stonithd process consumes large memory

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • stonithd process consumes large memory. top shows:
   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
  2322 root      20   0 1175m 1.1g 3808 S 12.6 57.9   3236:25 stonithd

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Cluster High Availability Add-on
  • Pacemaker
  • No fence devices configured

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