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Re: Linux Director Reliability

To: "LinuxVirtualServer.org users mailing list." <lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Linux Director Reliability
From: Horms <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 10:58:40 +0900
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 02:45:55PM +0200, Alexander Marx wrote:
> Horms wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I am looking for information from people who are running LVS in
> >production. I am most interested in how reliable they find
> >LVS to be. How often does the system go down. And when it does
> >what is the cause - if it is caused by something unrelated
> >to LVS like faulty hardware then you can skip that bit.
> >
> 
> hm .. we 've a setup here at work w/ lvs-nat on two ibm x305 boxen
> running lvs-1.1.7 currently on linux 2.6.0-test5 (debian/woody)
> 
> We have ~30 VIPs on six gigE interfaces .. traffic accross all
> interfaces averages at 15000 packets/s .. there is also an
> iproute2 setup in place.
> 
> so far we've encountered no stability issues wrt/ lvs, its
> rock solid, even the (carefully selected ;-) devel-versions.
> 
> the only problems so far were ..
> 
> a) constantly hitting connection-tracker limits

Could you explain this a little more. 

> b) connection-syncronization with the second node does not seem
>    to work in our current setup (results in kernel-oopses)

That is obviously not good. Is it reproducable. If so
don't be shy to send in some bug reports.

-- 
Horms
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