malcolm at loadbalancer
Jun 30, 2009, 2:37 AM
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Re: [lvs-users] Connections are "clumped" together on real_server failure
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Jay,
Try switching from WLC to WRR? (I'm guessing that you are using WLC).
2009/6/25 Jay Faulkner <jay.faulkner [at] mailtrust>:
> Hey guys,
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> We've been noticing some really strange behavior with keepalived/LVS when a real_server fails. The behavior we see is that when a r_s fails, all the persistent connections on that server fall over to a single server.
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> For example:
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> Server 1 - 25000 active conn. - 1500 inactive conn.
> Server 2 - 35000 active conn. - 1000 inactive conn.
> Server 3 - 20000 active conn. - 500 inactive conn.
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> Server 2 fails. Instead of seeing all the traffic split between the remaining real_servers, we see it all clump over to the same server
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> Server 1 - 25000 active conn. - 1500 inactive conn.
> Server 2 - failed
> Server 3 - 55000 active conn. - 1500 inactive conn.
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> Now, server 3 falls over and dies due to having too many connections on it and becoming overloaded.
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> We've seen this behavior consistently in all of our keepalived installations (20 servers or so? Median of about 20 virtual_servers each), and I was curious if this is configurable behavior, or even expected.
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> Thanks!
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> Jason Faulkner
> Linux Engineer, Rackspace Email & Apps
> jason.faulkner [at] rackspace<mailto:jason.faulkner [at] rackspace>
> o: (540) 443-2101 (ex. 505-2101)
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Malcolm Turnbull.
Loadbalancer.org Ltd.
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