RE: Very high inactive connections

["Francois JEANMOUGIN" <Francois.JEANMOUGIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Mueller :
> > I have been watching my stats with lvs-rrd
> 
> Alexandre will be pleased.  Oooh nice colors! ;-)
> 
> > One thing that concerns me Is my Inactive Connections.
> >
> > Is this something I need to me concerned with?
> > Check this out
> > http://gateway.unitnet.com/lvs.All.All.All.All.gif
> 
> http://www.austintek.com/LVS/LVS-HOWTO/HOWTO/LVS-
> HOWTO.ipvsadm.html#ActiveCo
> nn
> 
> Inactive connections are nothing to worry about.  They are efficient and
> help for the next request :)

If you are concerned about the look of the graphs, you can reduce the FIN_WAIT 
timeout in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/vs/timeout_finwait.

François.