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On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Peter Mueller wrote:
> > Lately the real servers are all running under heavier than
> > normal loads without any increase in http requests. Could
> > the LVS be getting 'tired' ? I've downloaded netparse and
>
> According to old 'Transformers' episodes your LVS director might be running
> low on energon. OK OK -- seriously -- no, your LVS director won't get
> tired. However, it might be getting overworked from routing too much
> traffic through NAT mode. How much bandwidth is it routing at peak times,
> and more specifically how many packets per second?
I don't have a measure of packets/second but normal peak is around 2
megabits/second according to my ISP.
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> When you say the load is going up on your real servers, what is actually
> happening? What part of the system is actually causing the load to go up?
The servers run a lot of perl/mod_perl scripts (via ssi calls in static
html pages) and when the load goes up there is usually plenty of idle cpu
remaining but lots of zombies present.
-Neil
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