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Re: [lvs-users] failover and connection threshold

To: "LinuxVirtualServer.org users mailing list." <lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [lvs-users] failover and connection threshold
From: Rumen Bogdanovski <rumen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 03:24:33 +0300
I think I can fix the problem,
Can anybody tell me how to compile only ip_vs.ko, not the whole kernel?
If it works I will post a the patch.

Regards 
Rumen

On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 17:42 +0300, Rumen Bogdanovski wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 07:22 -0700, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
> > On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Rumen Bogdanovski wrote:
> > 
> > > I am experiencing problems with the LVS master and backup 
> > > daemons. I have 2 directors running both with master and 
> > > backup sync daemons. Failover works fine but the 
> > > connection threshold does not. I mean if I have 2 real 
> > > servers each accepting 3 connections, this means I can 
> > > have 6 connections in total to the cluster, but if I have 
> > > 5 and the master fails, the backup takes over(so far so 
> > > good) but the new director accepts 6 more connections and 
> > > the cluster ends up with 11 connections, if another 
> > > failover occurs soon, 6 more connections will be accepted 
> > > no matter how many were inherited from the failed 
> > > director.
> > 
> > hmm. I'm not familiar with the connection threshhold code. 
> > As well it doesn't get used a whole lot, so it's possible 
> > that there are unnoticed bugs. However the code was written 
> > (I think) by Ratz (unless someone has messed with it since) 
> > and Ratz is unlikely to have let code out without making the 
> > obvious test to check for the problem you see.
> > 
> > Hopefully someone else will have a suggestion for you.
> > 
> > > How can I make the new director know how many connections are inherited?
> > >
> > > "ipvsadm -lnc" shows the inherited connections together with the new
> > > ones, while  "ipvsadm -l" shows only the connections established by the
> > > current director.
> > 
> > Has the number of connections (and other state info) been 
> > transferred by the synch state demon to the backup director?
> 
> Well the connection state works fine, no connection is dropped on when
> failover occurs. "ipvsadm -lnc" shows the correct state of all
> connections.
> but "ipvsadm -l" says 
> root@test2:~# ipvsadm -l
> IP Virtual Server version 1.2.1 (size=4096)
> Prot LocalAddress:Port Scheduler Flags
>   -> RemoteAddress:Port           Forward Weight ActiveConn InActConn
> TCP  rumen-desktop.local:5999 wlc
>   -> node473.local:5999           Route   1000   0          0         
>   -> node484.local:5999           Route   1000   0          0         
> 
> while "ipvs -lnc"
> root@test2:~# ipvsadm -lnc
> IPVS connection entries
> pro expire state       source             virtual            destination
> TCP 14:56  ESTABLISHED 192.168.0.10:39164 192.168.0.222:5999 192.168.0.51:5999
> TCP 14:59  ESTABLISHED 192.168.0.10:39165 192.168.0.222:5999 
> 192.168.0.52:5999 
> 
> new connection created :
> root@rumen-desktop:~# ipvsadm -l
> IP Virtual Server version 1.2.1 (size=4096)
> Prot LocalAddress:Port Scheduler Flags
>   -> RemoteAddress:Port           Forward Weight ActiveConn InActConn
> TCP  rumen-desktop.local:5999 wlc
>   -> node491.local:5999           Route   999    1          0         
>   -> node503.local:5999           Route   999    0          0  
> 
> root@rumen-desktop:~# ipvsadm -lnc
> IPVS connection entries
> pro expire state       source             virtual            destination
> TCP 14:59  ESTABLISHED 192.168.0.10:32800 192.168.0.222:5999
> 192.168.0.52:5999
> TCP 14:21  ESTABLISHED 192.168.0.10:39164 192.168.0.222:5999
> 192.168.0.51:5999
> TCP 14:31  ESTABLISHED 192.168.0.10:39165 192.168.0.222:5999
> 192.168.0.52:5999
> 
> So the new connection is seen on both places while the old ones only
> with "-lnc"  and the scheduler seems to read the same number of
> connections as "ipvsadm -l"
> 
> I could look in the source, but I am not sure how much time it will take
> me to figure out how everything works and to fix it... However I will
> try next days when I have some time...
> 
> Rumen
> 
> 
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