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Re: Major issue with LVS-DR when a server gets overloaded

To: "LinuxVirtualServer.org users mailing list." <lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Major issue with LVS-DR when a server gets overloaded
From: Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 06:13:57 -0800 (PST)
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Matthias Saou wrote:

traffic, the exact same issue as with the ServerIron happened!
Symptoms :
- The virtual IP address no longer responds on port 80, it times out
- The real server having problems gets REALLY overloaded

perhaps you should ask about this on the keepalived mailing list. There should be a hysteresis that stops the realserver flapping.

- All other 5 real servers no longer receive any traffic
- ipvsadm show no new active or inactive connections (counters stay the
same), only the persistent connections counters decrease slowly (as
expected since there are no new connections...)

never seen this before. The other realservers should be receiving packets just fine unless something else is jammed (eg the upstream router is overloaded with icmp unreachable)

I would like to have tried some kind of "keep the real server disabled
for n seconds when it's detected as down" in order to keep the check
from flip-flopping like this, but there is no such setting in
keepalived AFAICS.

I'm surprised it's not in there. Ask ALexandre about it.

Joe
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