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Re: [PATCH] ipvs: add sync_persist_mode flag

To: Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipvs: add sync_persist_mode flag
Cc: lvs-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: Aleksey Chudov <aleksey.chudov@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 00:11:14 +0300
Hello,

On 22.06.2013 15:43, Julian Anastasov wrote:

I tested the changes on one pair of LAN servers. After turning on
sync_persist_mode synchronization traffic decreased by 4 times! Also on LVS
Backup I can see only persist connections.
        Thanks! Can we assume that you have small number
of connections from every client? 1-2 per IP? Or a small
sync_refresh_period value is used? Can you show all these
sync* sysctl parameters that were used?

Each client opens about 3 connections.

Below is all ipvs sysctl parameters

# sysctl -a | grep net\.ipv4\.vs\.
net.ipv4.vs.amemthresh = 1048576
net.ipv4.vs.am_droprate = 10
net.ipv4.vs.drop_entry = 1
net.ipv4.vs.drop_packet = 0
net.ipv4.vs.conntrack = 0
net.ipv4.vs.secure_tcp = 1
net.ipv4.vs.snat_reroute = 1
net.ipv4.vs.sync_version = 1
net.ipv4.vs.sync_ports = 16
net.ipv4.vs.sync_persist_mode = 1
net.ipv4.vs.cache_bypass = 0
net.ipv4.vs.expire_nodest_conn = 1
net.ipv4.vs.sloppy_tcp = 1
net.ipv4.vs.sloppy_sctp = 0
net.ipv4.vs.expire_quiescent_template = 1
net.ipv4.vs.sync_threshold = 0  0
net.ipv4.vs.sync_refresh_period = 200
net.ipv4.vs.sync_retries = 0
net.ipv4.vs.nat_icmp_send = 0
net.ipv4.vs.lblc_expiration = 86400
net.ipv4.vs.lblcr_expiration = 86400


First of all the Kernel on both servers have been updated. Then LVS Backup has
been rebooted to drop all connections. After the reboot sync was disabled and
all connections counters was zero. When I enabled sync again almost all
persist connections from LVS Master have been synced to LVS Backup. But also I
can see 0.04% of the connections in ESTABLISHED state, although they should
not be there! After disabling sync all connections on LVS Backup completely
disappear after about 5 minutes.
        Is it possible some of your services to be with
persistence disabled? Because the sync_persist_mode=1 mode
will not affect non-persistent services - their synchronisation
should work as before.

There is only one service on this pair of LVS servers:
ipvsadm -A -f 1 -s wlc -p 300

May be some connection on LVS Master erroneously considered non-persistent?

        You can also try to grep for such established conns:

# Find such ESTABLISHED conns
grep ESTAB ip_vs_conn

# and see what kind of conns we have from such client IPs, do
# we have persistence templates, etc.
grep client_ip ip_vs_conn

For most ESTABLISHED conn on LVS Backup there is also persistence templates on both LVS Backup and LVS Master.


On 22.06.2013 15:53, Julian Anastasov wrote:

        I checked this file, there are 50 EST conns to
X.X.X.X, is it the same VIP that is part of persistent
services? All these conns are at their end of life, so
may be in the last 15mins there were more like them?


Yes. There is only one service. And there is always about 50 - 70 ESTABLISHED conns on LVS Backup. This should not create any problems. Just do not understand where they came from.

It looks like "end of life" conns because of reduced default tcp timeout.

# ipvsadm -l --timeout
Timeout (tcp tcpfin udp): 150 60 300


Aleksey
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