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Re: masquerading table slowdown

To: Dan <dan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: masquerading table slowdown
Cc: "'lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Julian Anastasov <uli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 18:05:00 +0300 (EEST)
        Hello,

On Fri, 5 May 2000, Dan wrote:

> Hi:
> 
> My table size is 2^18. I have approximately 40M of free memory. When my
> total number of active & inactive connnections (as reported by ipvsadm)
> approaches 4000 the following message starts to appear in the log and
> connection speed slows dramatically. 

        Is this a FTP service? I can recommend you to change the MASQ
table size too (IP_MASQ_TAB_SIZE) but this is not related to the problem
with the kernel message you see. It is only for faster table lookups.

> 
> kernel: IP_MASQ:ip_masq_new(proto=TCP): could not get free masq entry
> (free=36214)
> 
> The system is running in NAT mode. Other parameters:
> 
> LVS machine: PIII/500/64M with 4 Intel Etherexpress 10/100s (1 external IP,
> 2 private IP, 1 heartbeat). There real servers are PIII/500/256M with 2
> 3Com905 10/100s. There are 7 real servers. Both NICS on each real server
> have traffic routed to them (evenly weighted). Only one of the private NIC
> cards on the virtual server is used at any time (the other is a failover).

        Is the LVS attacked from real clients or from your test
suite near the cluster?


Regards

--
Julian Anastasov <uli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>



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